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I am indebted to Mr. Blyth for information in regard to this genus. [1]

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Throughout the genus Callionymus (14. [1]

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So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
Two humming-birds belonging to the genus Eustephanus, both beautifully coloured, inhabit the small island of Juan Fernandez, and have always been ranked as specifically distinct. [1]
See Jerdon on the genus Palaeornis, 'Birds of India,' vol. [1]
Nor is it strange that variations in the tail-feathers of the Urosticte should have been specially selected for the sake of ornament, for the next succeeding genus in the family takes its name of Metallura from the splendour of these feathers. [1]
In a second species of the same genus a terminal scale forms a minute horn on the summit of the flexible appendage; and in a third species (C. Stoddartii, fig. [1]
Again, in three species of the Lamellicorn genus Oryctes, we have a nearly parallel case. [1]
If there should prove to be one real living free-State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him, and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be extinct variety of the genus Democrat. [7]
But there are others to whom she tells her dreams; not what species or genus her lily belongs to, but what vague thought it has when it dresses in white, or what memory of its birthplace that is which we call its fragrance. [6]
See Dr. Gunther on this genus, in 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1868, p. [1]
The little lizards of the genus Draco, which glide through the air on their rib- supported parachutes, and which in the beauty of their colours baffle description, are furnished with skinny appendages to the throat "like the wattles of gallinaceous birds. [1]
It is also occasionally present in a few members alone in a whole group of animals, as in the genus Forficula, or earwigs. [1]
This gibbon is not the only species in the genus which sings, for my son, Francis Darwin, attentively listened in the Zoological Gardens to H. leuciscus whilst singing a cadence of three notes, in true musical intervals and with a clear musical tone. [1]
The Australian genus Menura, however, must be excepted; for the Menura Alberti, which is about the size of a half-grown turkey, not only mocks other birds, but "its own whistle is exceedingly beautiful and varied. [1]
The genus Scarabaeus is what I have chiefly confined myself to, and ought to have studied exclusively. [6]
Hence we may infer that these nine species, and probably all the others of the genus, are descended from an ancestral form which was coloured in nearly the same manner. [1]
Isaac D. Worthington, indeed, might by a stretch of the imagination be called the pioneer of all the genus to be known in the future as City Folks, who were, two generations later, to invade the country like a devouring army of locusts. [9]
The genus Solenostoma, however, offers a curious exceptional case (40. [1]
In another closely-allied genus of night-jars, the shafts of the elongated wing-feathers are naked, except at the extremity, where there is a disc. [1]
In such a genus as Labrus, which includes some of the most splendid fishes in the world--for instance, the Peacock Labrus (L. pavo), described (28. [1]
One of these, Elaps, is venomous; a second and widely-distinct genus is doubtfully venomous, and the two others are quite harmless. [1]
The genus Elaphomyia, discovered by Mr. Wallace (18. [1]
It contains the coarsest and most uneatable of fish, such as the cat-fish and such genus, and as you descend, its banks are occupied with the fetid alligator, while the panther basks at its edge in the cane-brakes, almost impervious to man. [5]
See a paper by Mr. C. Spence Bate, with figures, in 'Proceedings, Zoological Society,' 1868, p. 363; and on the nomenclature of the genus, ibid. [1]
Instances have already been given in the same genus, as with sparrows, fly- catchers, thrushes and grouse. [1]
The young of an Indian goose (Sarkidiornis melanonotus) closely resemble in plumage an allied genus, Dendrocygna, when mature. [1]
See also an account of the S. American genus Erateina (one of the Geometrae) in 'Transactions, Ent. [1]

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