The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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Page ix
... attack the Nests of other Ants - Birds ' Nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in Ants - Parallel between the Mammalia and the Hymenoptera - Utopia CHAPTER III . Journey up River continued - Wild Pigs and Jaguar - Bungos ...
... attack the Nests of other Ants - Birds ' Nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in Ants - Parallel between the Mammalia and the Hymenoptera - Utopia CHAPTER III . Journey up River continued - Wild Pigs and Jaguar - Bungos ...
Page x
... attack— Method of Destroying the Ants - Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus ...
... attack— Method of Destroying the Ants - Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus ...
Page xi
... attacked by Eagle -White - faced Monkey - Anecdotes of a tame one- -Curassows and other game Birds - Trogons , Woodpeckers , Mot - mots , and Toucans CHAPTER VIII . Description of San Antonio Valley - Great variety of animal life ...
... attacked by Eagle -White - faced Monkey - Anecdotes of a tame one- -Curassows and other game Birds - Trogons , Woodpeckers , Mot - mots , and Toucans CHAPTER VIII . Description of San Antonio Valley - Great variety of animal life ...
Page 11
... attack the Nests of other Ants - Birds ' Nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in Ants - Parallel between the Mammalia and the Hymenoptera - Utopia . I FOUND at Greytown the mail - boat of the Chontales Gold Mining Company ...
... attack the Nests of other Ants - Birds ' Nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in Ants - Parallel between the Mammalia and the Hymenoptera - Utopia . I FOUND at Greytown the mail - boat of the Chontales Gold Mining Company ...
Page 21
... attacked , the ants rush out , carrying the larva and pupa in their jaws , but are immediately despoiled of them by the Ecitons , which are running about in every direction with great swiftness . When- ever they come across a Hypoclinea ...
... attacked , the ants rush out , carrying the larva and pupa in their jaws , but are immediately despoiled of them by the Ecitons , which are running about in every direction with great swiftness . When- ever they come across a Hypoclinea ...
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