The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 74National Geographic Society, 1939 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Albatrosses and Petrels ; Gannets , Man - o ' - war - birds , and Tropic - birds * BY ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY CURATOR OF OCEANIC BIRDS , AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY that do business in great waters " ( Psalm 107 : 23 ) SOARING LIKE ...
Albatrosses and Petrels ; Gannets , Man - o ' - war - birds , and Tropic - birds * BY ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY CURATOR OF OCEANIC BIRDS , AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY that do business in great waters " ( Psalm 107 : 23 ) SOARING LIKE ...
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... BIRDS The Procellariiformes are an ancient and primitive group , doubtless more abundant , and certainly more widespread , during for- mer geologic ages . We know from fossils that there were once albatrosses in the North Atlantic . All ...
... BIRDS The Procellariiformes are an ancient and primitive group , doubtless more abundant , and certainly more widespread , during for- mer geologic ages . We know from fossils that there were once albatrosses in the North Atlantic . All ...
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... birds . The late Dr. Edgar A. Mearns often told me of watching such bands in Ethiopia come to drink at small streams . The birds poured in until the ground was covered , and at the water's edge they literally piled on top of one another ...
... birds . The late Dr. Edgar A. Mearns often told me of watching such bands in Ethiopia come to drink at small streams . The birds poured in until the ground was covered , and at the water's edge they literally piled on top of one another ...
Contents
GuamPerch of the China Clippers By MARGARET M HIGGINS | 99 |
A Motor Caravan Rolls Across Sahara and Jungle Through Realms | 327 |
Boyhood Recollections and Recent Observations by An American | 419 |
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