Philp's Washington Described: A Complete View of the American Capital, and the District of Columbia, with Many Notices, Historical, Topographical, and Scientific, of the Seat of GovernmentWilliam D'Arcy Haley S. Low, 1861 - Počet stran: 239 |
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... limits . Comparatively exhaustive as , it is hoped , the following pages will be found , the things of which they treat require much more extensive elaboration . Nowhere , probably , can there be found so small a territory embracing as ...
... limits . Comparatively exhaustive as , it is hoped , the following pages will be found , the things of which they treat require much more extensive elaboration . Nowhere , probably , can there be found so small a territory embracing as ...
Strana 22
... limit . Of the Carnivora , two species of fox , the red and the gray , are abundant . The ermine weasel , Putorius Nove- boracensis , although not rare , is not often taken . It is too far south here to assume its white , winter dress ...
... limit . Of the Carnivora , two species of fox , the red and the gray , are abundant . The ermine weasel , Putorius Nove- boracensis , although not rare , is not often taken . It is too far south here to assume its white , winter dress ...
Strana 23
... limit . There are two long - tailed wild mice , Hesperomys leucopus and Nuttalli ; and it is probable that the wood rat , Neotoma Floridana , was once found here . * Of the short - tailed field mice , one ( Arvicola riparia ) is the ...
... limit . There are two long - tailed wild mice , Hesperomys leucopus and Nuttalli ; and it is probable that the wood rat , Neotoma Floridana , was once found here . * Of the short - tailed field mice , one ( Arvicola riparia ) is the ...
Strana 24
... limits a large proportion of the birds composing the eastern fauna of our country . And this , indeed , is the case ... limit to the further progress of many more southern birds . The Summer red - bird ( Pyranga æstiva ) , the cardi- nal ...
... limits a large proportion of the birds composing the eastern fauna of our country . And this , indeed , is the case ... limit to the further progress of many more southern birds . The Summer red - bird ( Pyranga æstiva ) , the cardi- nal ...
Strana 25
... limits . But the incessant persecutions to which these birds are subjected have so materially decreased their numbers that they are every year becoming scarcer ; and the great body of those that are left , intimidated by incessant ...
... limits . But the incessant persecutions to which these birds are subjected have so materially decreased their numbers that they are every year becoming scarcer ; and the great body of those that are left , intimidated by incessant ...
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