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Excerpt from Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of ManaarThe ocypode burrows in the dry soil, making deep excava tions, bringing up literally armfuls of sand, which, with a spring in the air, and employing its other limbs, it jerks far from its burrows, distributing it in a circle to the distance of several feet. So inconvenient are the Operations of these industrious pests that men are kept constantly employed...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia and Apoda (Frogs, Toads, and Coecilians) Of Southern India: Illustrated by Thirteen Plates They may be defined as cold-blooded (poikilothermic) vertebrate animals, the majority of which have a pair of lungs situated below the digestive tract, which breathe by means of gills during some or the entire period of their existence, have three chambers (two auricles and a ventricle) to the heart, and...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...