Collection of Heating and Lighting Utensils in the United States National Museum, Temas141-142U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 113 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adult Alaska Anton Heitmuller April April 28 August beach birds brass brown buff BULLETIN 141 PL burner camphine candle socket candlestick Cape coast collected cooking crusie dates DESCRIPTION OF PLATE device diameter donor unknown dowitcher drip catcher eggs England feathers feeding female Figure fire flat flocks fuel glass godwit grass handle heat inches inches 14 cm inches 21 cm iron Island July June Lake lantern least sandpiper light male Manitoba marbled godwit March marshes migration molt MUSEUM BULLETIN 141 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN nest North notes November October October 20 oven pair pectoral sandpiper perforated phalarope PLATE SEE PAGES pottery probably purple sandpiper red phalarope reservoir S. B. Dean sanderling sandpiper scapulars seen semipalmated sandpiper September shore birds side snipe South species specimen spots spring stilt sandpiper stove torch U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM vessel Walter Hough western sandpiper woodcock yellow-legs
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Página 102 - ... catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, and other material of similar nature. The majority of the volumes are octavo in size, but a quarto size has been adopted in a few instances in which large plates were regarded as indispensable. In the Bulletin series appear volumes under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, in octavo form, published by the National Museum since 1902, which contain papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum.
Página ii - ... monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, and catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, etc.
Página ii - Bulletins, the first of which was issued in 1875, consist of a series of separate publications comprising monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, and other material of similar nature.
Página 165 - ... hanging below. Again he crosses back and forth in front of the female, puffing his breast out and bowing from side to side, running here and there as if intoxicated with passion.
Página 101 - ADVERTISEMENT The scientific publications of the National Museum include two series, known, respectively, as Proceedings and Bulletin. The Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original papers, based on the collections of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. Copies of each...
Página 23 - ... A more common, but scarcely less pleasing sight, is presented when, unconscious of observation, they walk sedately along the border of the water, never departing from their usual grace of movement. Their food is generally found in such places, where the receding water furnishes a bountiful supply. The only demonstrations I have observed during the pairing time consist of a kind of solemn bowing of the head and body; but sometimes, with the head lowered and thrust forward, they will run back and...
Página ii - Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original papers, based on the collections of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. Copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, are distributed as published to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The dates at which these...
Página 24 - ... may be counted within the radius of a mile; but notwithstanding this, their nests are extremely difficult to discover — the material and the color of the eggs correspond so closely to the appearance of the surrounding surface. If they are disturbed while building, the nest is usually abandoned. Incubation is attended to by the male alone. The female, however, keeps near, and is quick to give the alarm upon the approach of danger. The females are frequently found at this time in small parties...
Página 165 - The [male] bird may frequently be seen running along the ground close to the female, its enormous sac inflated, and its head drawn back and the bill pointing directly forward, or, filled with spring-time vigor, the bird flits with slow but energetic wing-strokes close along the ground, its head raised high over the shoulders and the tail hanging almost directly down.
Página 270 - Descriptions of New Species of Hymenopterous Insects from the Islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea. collected by Mr. AR Wallace.