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And because one of those ladies me is intrigued by the tiny, you also have photos of a few small things along the way...a religious statue set into the wall of a house, some old building techniques and ... the rare and protected Dark Columbine Aquilegia atrata.
Archive 2008-06-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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Goodenough Island contains an endemic bat (Dobsonia pannietensis) and an endemic forest wallaby, the black dorcopsis (Dorcopsis atrata).
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And because one of those ladies me is intrigued by the tiny, you also have photos of a few small things along the way...a religious statue set into the wall of a house, some old building techniques and ... the rare and protected Dark Columbine Aquilegia atrata.
A Walk in the Hills Glenda Larke 2008
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Three species are listed as threatened (VU or higher) by IUCN: black dorcopsis (Dorcopsis atrata), St. Aignan's trumpet-eared bat (Kerivoula agnella), and Tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei).
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M. atrata, that we see no good reason for separating the two into different genera.
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Mamillaria atrata (Eriosyce (Neoporteria) subgibbosa)
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The southern pied bush-chat (_Pratincola atrata_) is one of the commonest and most familiar birds of the Nilgiris.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Achillea atrata and A. moschata will live either on calcareous or granitic soil, but in a district where both occur, A. atrata grows so much the more vigorously of the two if the soil is calcareous that it soon exterminates A. moschata; while in granite districts, on the contrary, A. moschata is victorious and A. atrata disappears.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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Other species are found in the United States, viz: C. cinerea, a native of the Northern and Middle states; C. marginata; C. atrata, common in Northern and Middle
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There is a very similar species, the black blister-beetle, (_Lytta atrata_, Fabr.,) from which the black-rat blister-beetle is distinguishable only by having four raised lines placed lengthwise upon each wing-case, and by the two first joints of the antennæ being greatly dilated and lengthened in the males, of the lath species.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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