The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 72National Geographic Society., 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 192
... Inches Formerly found all along the Atlantic shores as far south as Brazil , and on the Pacific coast from Mexico to Colombia , the American oyster - catcher has been greatly reduced in the northern part of its range , so that although ...
... Inches Formerly found all along the Atlantic shores as far south as Brazil , and on the Pacific coast from Mexico to Colombia , the American oyster - catcher has been greatly reduced in the northern part of its range , so that although ...
Page 200
... Inches If we can judge from the accounts of such ornithologists as Audubon and Wilson in the early part of the 19th century , the Hudsonian curlew has increased in numbers during the last hundred years , while every other species has ...
... Inches If we can judge from the accounts of such ornithologists as Audubon and Wilson in the early part of the 19th century , the Hudsonian curlew has increased in numbers during the last hundred years , while every other species has ...
Page 204
... inches in diameter , it contained four greenish - gray eggs irregularly spotted with dark brown , chiefly about the larger end . Aleutian Sandpiper Arquatella ptilocnemis couesi Average Length , Nine Inches Three varieties of this ...
... inches in diameter , it contained four greenish - gray eggs irregularly spotted with dark brown , chiefly about the larger end . Aleutian Sandpiper Arquatella ptilocnemis couesi Average Length , Nine Inches Three varieties of this ...
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Algonquian Indians | 57 |
Soaring Heights of New Hampshire Attract | 73 |
Admiral Byrds Second | 105 |
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