... of the hill green-pigeon is
substituted. The harsh cries of the rose-
ringed paroquets give place to the softer
call of the slaty-headed species. The
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds of
the ... of the corby. Instead of the
crescendo shriek of the koel, the pleasing
double note of the European cuckoo meets
the ear. For the eternal coo-c...
... enterprise
which they never visit.
The people who owned the shares were
the ones who owned the tools. Very
naturally, they wanted and expected
dividends for the use of the tools. That
was all they wanted—dividends. ... again made the place
of his boyhood the home of his old age.
Owen died in the house in which he was
born. His body was buried in the same
grave where...
... vigour.
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for no witness of their song, nor thirst for
human praise. They were all nesting now.
But if I heard them less, I saw much more
of them, especially of one individual, the
male bird of a couple that ... sparrow there, he
attacked and chased it away. It was a feast
of nightingales. An elderly woman of the
village explained to me that the
nightingales and other small...
... made the notice
of the distribution of the various birds
through the Islands, which he has denoted
by the letters a, e, i, o, u
[1]
appended to
the name of each bird, necessarily faulty.
The ... in
marking the distribution of the birds
through the various Islands.
No doubt many of the birds included in
Professor Ansted's list were included
merely...
... yet discovered the cause of the car's sudden loss of
power. But even as he spoke, the mystery was solved. There was
a leak in the petrol-tank, near the bottom; the last drop of essence
had ... [Ebook 23500]
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stopped at another garage, and I t...
... dividend
by the coefficient of the divisor for the coefficient of the quotient, subtract the
exponent of each letter in the divisor from the exponent of the same letter in the
dividend for the exponent of ... rep-
resentation of numbers by letters. The solution of problems is one of the most
valuable portions of the work, in that it serves to develo...
... form of considerable importance in the consideration of the problem of the
cooling of the earth’s crust.
In the problem of the permanent state of temperatures in a thin rectangular
plate, the ... recede
from the base; we shall attempt to find the temperature at any point of the
plate.
Let us take the base as the axis of X and one end of the base as...
... all of the branches are situated. We know
the real shape of each branch, but we do not know whether it lies on the hither or on the farther side of the
plane of projection.
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is for 8
h
40
m
; July 16, planet unsteady.
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Colors of the Equatorial Belts.
North of the narrow...
... packed their lunch-box. The last
minute, they ran across the street to tell
their playmates good -by. When they came
back, Daddy had brought the car to the
front of the house and was carrying out the
little ... all
over the floor. He put them back in the
chest; and then he hung his sign in the
window again.
" ;The next day Joe passed by and saw the
sign; and he to...
... packed their lunch-box. The last
minute, they ran across the street to tell
their playmates good -by. When they came
back, Daddy had brought the car to the
front of the house and was carrying out the
little ... soon as
they find another queen, some of them
must move out.
"When the bees are swarming, they
always take good care of their queen.
Sometimes they settle on a...