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    • Ornithological Notes - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      A feature of this issue is a coloured plate representing five species of brilliantly coloured birds—the quezal, the great bird of paradise</ ...

    • The Rhinoceros in New Guinea - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      When trying to cross the country from there to the south coast, opposite the Aru Islands, —in which I did not succeed, but only saw the sea-shore at a great distance from the height of a mountain ...

    • Notes - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      Last year Dr. Wollaston gave an account of the unlucky attempt of the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition in “Pygmies and Papuans,” and quite recently Capt. C. G. Rawling has published ...

    • Muffs and Vivisection - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      Suffice it to say, that I never paid such a visit as Mr. Johnston describes; never received such a rebuke; never used an ivory-handled umbrella; never wore a bird

    • Splitting of Genera - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      THE recent passion for the progressive splitting up of genera has spread through most branches of zoology and latterly to botany as well. In fact, the present phase in taxonomy is to lump species ...

    • Beautiful Birds - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      MR. SELOUS' volume, in spite of its pleasant-looking green cover, numerous though indifferent plates, and text cheerfully varied with italics, is in reality no more than an unduly swollen tract ...

    • Bees and Dead Carcases1 - Nature

      Nature· 5 days ago

      DURING the last two hundred years our knowledge of natural and physical science has advanced by leaps and bounds, until, in most departments, it has risen to a level far exceeding anything which ...