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Example sentences for "specimens were"

  • In the vicinity of La Pesca, specimens were trapped on the beach where Spermophilus spilosoma and Sigmodon hispidus were taken also.

  • Two kilometers west of El Carrizo, where Liomys irroratus is called "raton tuza," specimens were collected on rocks inclined at an angle of about twenty-five degrees that were covered with zacaton grass and some bushes.

  • But, one mile east of La Pesca, specimens were taken on a beach having sparse grass.

  • Specimens were sent by me to Professor Peck who referred it to A.

  • Specimens were sent to Professor Peck and identified as L.

  • Specimens were sent to me by Miss Lydia M.

  • Over a score of specimens were recorded in 1868, chiefly in August, and from localities ranging from Cornwall to Yorkshire.

  • Except that two {84} specimens were reported as found in a street at Deal, the moth does not seem to have been noticed at large.

  • No specimens were taken by Whitehead and it is unrecorded from Luzon, although there seems to be no reason why it should be absent from that island.

  • Not abundant in the parts of Mindoro visited by us, and no specimens were gathered by the Menage Expedition.

  • Hornbills, almost certainly of this species, were seen by the Steere expedition in Negros, but no specimens were obtained.

  • Specimens were taken in piles of boulders in Mescal Wash, and amid rock outcroppings on the steep, barren, south slopes at the base of Grandview Canyon, whereas none was found on the juniper-clad benches.

  • Specimens were taken in the chaparral association in San Antonio Canyon, near Jackson Lake among yellow pines, and in Mescal Canyon at the upper limit of the Joshua tree woodland.

  • Specimens were taken on the damp ground next to San Antonio Creek, and in the riparian growth.

  • He endeavoured to ascertain whether these plants, or either of them, were grown in any of the gardens in the Cornish locality where four fresh specimens were captured in September, 1885.

  • This butterfly was not known as British until 1828, when a number of specimens were captured at Monkswood in Huntingdonshire.

  • Lewes's specimens were found in ponds on Wimbledon Common.

  • My specimens were attached to the stem of a water-lily growing in a pool of slightly brackish water and were of a brilliant green colour.

  • Carter's specimens were taken in the island of Bombay, mine at Rambha in the north-east of the Madras Presidency.

  • Carter's specimens were growing on gravel, rocks and stones at the edge of "tanks," and were seldom covered for more than six months in the year.


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