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Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections
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the maguey of the West Indies (a spiny-leaved relative of
the century plant, native of the West Indies, and used there…
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America and the West Indies, and some from northern South
America. Bananas will grow in southern Florida, but the
rocky…
country, " huariqui " (Ibervillea sonorae); during the rainy-
season green stems arise from these large…
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tree (Olea europaea), of which a small specimen will be found
near the oleanders ; this plant was originally from the…
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tively few species are found, while in very cold countries they
are entirely absent.
Most of the tropical forms are…
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young shoots are sometimes used as a vegetable. Closely
related to this, and just south of it, is the amaranth family,…
Large archaeohyracids (Typotheria, Notoungulata) from central Chile and Patagonia : including a revision of Archaeotypotherium
nation of the members (e.g., Archaeohegetotheria,
Hegetoarchaeohyracoidea) could also be used.
Some combination of these…
mostly late Oligocene Deseadan SALMA. Filling
a niche that presumably was similar to that of the
hypsodont archaeohyracids,…
South American Land Mammal Ages: Correlation to
global geochronologies, pp. 317-333. In Berggren, W.
A., D. V. Kent, M.-P.…
Reguero, M. a., D. a. Croft, J. J. Flynn, and A. R.
Wyss. (2003). Small archaeohyracids (Typotheria,
Notoungulata) from…
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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MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
one has received a more detailed description. The
next animal of which he gives an account is the…
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INTRODUCTION.
Australia; there is, besides, a half reclaimed race
among the Indians of North America, and another…
INTRODUCTION.
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We may therefore commence our remarks by
observing that dogs are found in every quarter of
the globe,…
INTRODUCTION.
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Or in the case noticed by Mr Hodgson at Katman-
doo, where his experiments proved the Capra tharal'â…
INTRODUCTION.
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pass from one to the other, from the largest Irish
greyhound, through wolves, dogs, jackals, and
foxes,…
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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
stantly wanting ; and the same difference occurs in
the Canis Dukhunensis of Colonel Sykes, and in all…
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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 CAYGOTTE* OF MEXICO.
Lyciscus cagottis^Smith.
PLATE VL
The Caygotte of the Mexican Spaniards, and most
probably…
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SECTION VI. CYNALOPEX.
The following may be considered as Jackals with
long tails, or Foxes with diurnal eyes, in some…
FENNEC OF BRUCE.
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rest naked, at the base and sides folded and plaited ;
tail fiill, cylindrical, rufous-brown in colour…
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THE MANED AGUARA.
confidence or familiarity even witli dogs.
Its sight
was not strong in the glare of day ; it retired…
THE AGUARA WOLVES.
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vertical opening, but liable to assume the rounded
shape in a moment ; and this c^ect being generally…
THE AGUARA WOLVES.
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most all the interior of South America, that the
whole group of indigenous canines is understood.*…
THE AGUARA DOGS.
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heel ; the body is long, compared to the height, and
bulky ; the feet are smaller, a characteristic ex…
WHITE-BARRED AGUARA FOX.
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and black, as were also the muzzzle, edge of tlie lips,
and eyelids; there were five toes on…