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Fourthly a swallow, which though differing from the Progne purpurea of both Americas, only in being rather duller coloured, smaller, and slenderer, is considered by Mr. Gould as specifically distinct. Fifthly there are three species of mocking-thrush a form highly characteristic of America.

Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle

"For this reason, again," continues the Saint, "the Apostle says 'A woman is not permitted to teach, nor to have dominion over her husband." Bishop Marbodius calls woman a "pleasant evil, at once a honeycomb and a poison" and indicts the sex, something on the order of Juvenal or Jonathan Swift, by citing the cases of Eve, the daughters of Lot, Delilah, Herodias, Clytemnestra, and Progne.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.

Cheiroptera, absence of secondary sexual characters in. Chelae of crustacea. Chelonia, sexual differences in. Chenalopex aegyuptiacus, wing-knobs of. Chera progne. Chest, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors; large, of the Quechua and Aymara Indians. Chevrotains, canine teeth of. Chiasognathus, stridulation of. Chiasognathus Grantii, mandibles of.

Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man