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Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections
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upright habit, and more graceful than the cottonvvood or
Carolina poplar; the American aspen, a native of northern…
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the Bronx River. The magnolia family will be found
mainly in the swale lying between the two ridges, with a
few…
The natural history of dogs : Canidae or genus Canis of authors ; including also the genera Hyaena and Proteles / by Lieut. Col…
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INTRODUCTION.
Society, in February 1837, are correct, the vertebras
of the back, loins, and sacrum diflfer, between the…
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INTRODUCTION.
tion.*
Writers more imbued with the spirit of
system than with the phenomena they have to
investigate and…
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INTRODUCTION.
they be without a known prototype, we might form
a system as philosophically admissible as our present…
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THE CANINE FAMILY
and France, hydropliobia attacks wolves and foxes
as well as the dogs ; both the first mentioned are…
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THE CANINE FAMILY
and races that have since been nearly or entirely
extirpated.
This opinion is strengthened hy the…
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SUB-GENUS I. CHAON.
SECTION I. LUPUS.
THE WOLVES.
Lupus, Linn.—Sub-genus Chaon, Ham. Smith.
The typical wolf of Europe…
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THE WOLVES.
ately devour him. At, the close of the appalling
famine which desolated India, now more than a
quarter of a…
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THE WOLVES.
rally repel the attack, killing one or more of the
enemy. Single horses fight a wolf by striking with…
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THE TRUE DHOLE.
zle, back of the ears, and feet sooty. From this
description the animal differs from Chryseus primw-…