10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREVIPENNATE»
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brevipennate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
brevipennate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The American Journal of Science and Arts
Not long after Carre's visit, M. de la Haye, with colonists from Madagascar, visited
Bourbon, and a gentleman of his party confirms the above account, but gives
proof of a second species of brevipennate birds having inhabited these islands.
2
Recreative Science: A Record and Remembrancer of ...
It is not, however, to terrestrial brevipennate birds that we apply the term “
paddlewinged." We appropriate it exclusively to aquatic birds ; and this
indiscriminately without respect to the order or genus to which they individually
belong; for,be it ...
3
The American Journal of Science
... but say that they were of comparatively recent construction, and the work of
existing species, if such species were terrestrial, brevipennate birds, of a bulk
proportioned to the nests, it is so improbable that such should have escaped 0
Prof.
4
American Journal of Science: The First Scientific Journal in ...
Not long after Carre's visit, M. de la Haye, with colonists from Madagascar, visited
Bourbon, and a gentleman of his party confirms the above account, but gives
proof of a second species of brevipennate birds having inhabited these islands.
5
Recreative Science; a Record and Remembrancer of ...
The catalogue of extant brevipennate birds is not very large, and yet the species
are less closely allied to each other than might at first be suspected. How far
apart are the ostrich and the kiwi P Yet both belong to the brevipennato type of
birds.
6
Hardwicke's Science-gossip
Brevipennate Birds. — I was reading over some back volumes of Science-Gossip
the article headed Brevipennate Birds. The author says : "On Jan. 8, 1755, by an
order of the vice-chancellor and his cotrustees, it was ordered to be burnt, the ...
7
The Dodo and Its Kindred: Or, The History, Affinities, and ...
He not only confirms the accounts given by Tatton, Bontekoe, and Carré, of a
brevipennate bird in Bourb0n,'but gives us a clear proof that a second species of
the same group of birds inhabited that island. Speaking of the land'birds of the ...
Hugh Edwin Strickland, Alexander Gordon Mellville, 1848
8
The Dodo and its Kindred; or the history, affinities, and ...
He not only confirms the accounts given by Tatton, Bontekoe, and Carré, of a
brevipennate bird in Bourbon, but gives us a clear proof that a second species of
the same group of birds inhabited that island. Speaking of the land-birds of the ...
9
British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ...
the time of their human colonization, by at least four distinct, but probably allied
species of brevipennate birds. This result at once reminds us of the analogous
case of the New Zealand group of islands, where the scientific zeal of Messrs.
The existence of brevipennate forms Is not rare in the family Capniidae;
brevipennate males are typical of some species (Capnia bifrons). A tendency for
the wings to be brevipennate In both sexes is manifested in C± vidua. This
species, which ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREVIPENNATE»
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brevipennate is used in the context of the following news items.
Green Mold in the Fridge
“Brevipennate” means “having short wings.” That describes an EMU. ERIC the Midget is apparently a regular on “The Howard Stern Show. «New York Times, Jan 10»
