stercovorous

In England the greater number of stercovorous beetles are confined in their appetites; that is, they do not depend indifferently on any quadruped for the means of subsistence.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

When the island was discovered it certainly possessed no quadruped excepting perhaps a mouse: it becomes, therefore, a difficult point to ascertain, whether these stercovorous insects have since been imported by accident, or if aborigines, on what food they formerly subsisted.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

When the island was discovered it certainly possessed no quadruped excepting perhaps a mouse: it becomes, therefore, a difficult point to ascertain, whether these stercovorous insects have since been imported by accident, or if aborigines, on what food they formerly subsisted.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In England the greater number of stercovorous beetles are confined in their appetites; that is, they do not depend indifferently on any quadruped for the means of subsistence.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In England the greater number of stercovorous beetles are confined in their appetites; that is, they do not depend indifferently on any quadruped for the means of subsistence.

Chapter XXI 1909

When the island was discovered it certainly possessed no quadruped, excepting perhaps a mouse; it becomes, therefore, a difficult point to ascertain, whether these stercovorous insects have since been imported by accident, or if aborigines, on what food they formerly subsisted.

Chapter XXI 1909

In England the greater number of stercovorous beetles are confined in their appetites; that is, they do not depend indifferently on any quadruped for the means of subsistence.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

When the island was discovered it certainly possessed no quadruped excepting PERHAPS a mouse: it becomes, therefore, a difficult point to ascertain, whether these stercovorous insects have since been imported by accident, or if aborigines, on what food they formerly subsisted.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845