10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELLIPHAGOUS»
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There are two types of this genus, — one with a melliphagous bill and verditer-
blue shoulder, common to India and the Malay countries ; the other with the bill
more resembling that of Iora, and peculiar to the Malay countries. To the latter
type ...
2
A Treatise on the Geography and Classification of Animals
... manifestly separated from all those we have already illustrated. (163.) The first
indication of Australian zoology appears to take place in some of the Asiatic
islands, to the north-west of New Guinea ,' for it is there that the Melliphagous
family, ...
3
Recreations in Physical Geography, Or, The Earth as it is
126). Doves and pigeons are, however, very abundant ; and some of the species
are remarkable for their beauty. The most common birds appear to be various
species of the melliphagous or honey-sucking family, which feed on the honey of
...
Rosina Maria Zornlin, 1840
4
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
230, '235, it may be seen that a distinct gradation exists between two such
extreme forms as the shrike-like, purely zoophagous Dicrurus ater and the
slender-billed, partially melliphagous Chibia hottentotta : and if these can be
united, I see no ...
5
The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds ...
... to the Mauritius, Madagascar, and Africa ; this distribution in Africa is against
the view of its being a really Melliphagous genus ; and, as it undoubtedly has
affinities with the birds with which it is placed here, I prefer keeping it in this group
.
Thomas Claverhill Jerdon, 1877
6
The Encyclopaedia of Geography: Comprising a Complete ...
The Melliphagous groups of America, at the head of which shine the splendid
family of Humming-birds (Jig. 81.), form the chief peculiarity of its ornithology ;
other races, scarcely less beautiful, occur in Africa, Asia, and Australia : yet the
natural ...
Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, 1837
... 23 melliphagous, insectivorous, vermivorous, frugivorous, and 24
anthropophagous ursine quadruped. A terrific sanguinary 25 cynarctomachy
ensued. In the circumgyrations of the 26 battailants, Schnell rendered Bruin
excaudate; but Bruin ...
8
The Principles and practice of surgery
Few lads in the country familiar with the adventures of schoolboy days have
escaped having their eyes closed by the stings of bees, received in the act of
gratifying their melliphagous instincts. These wounds are very painful, and are
quickly ...
9
Illustrations of British Entomology, Or a Synopsis of ...
... in the females ; posterior ample, folded ; cilia short : body rather long, robust,
acute, and with a small tuft at the apex in the males; very acute and elongate, with
an exserted ovipositor in the females : legs rather short. Larva melliphagous ...
James Francis Stephens, 1834
10
Illustrations of British Entomology: Or, A Synopsis of ...
Larva melliphagous, slender, naked, with sixteen legs : pupa formed in a cocoon
amongst its food. The great stoutness of the trunk and abdomen of Galleria,
comhined with the rctuse or notched hinder margin of the anterior wings, which
are of ...
James Francis Stephens, 1834
