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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... numerous epiphytes - Tillandsias , orchids , ferns , and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden . Great arums are perched on the forks and send down roots like cords to the ground , whilst lianas run from ...
... numerous epiphytes - Tillandsias , orchids , ferns , and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden . Great arums are perched on the forks and send down roots like cords to the ground , whilst lianas run from ...
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... numerous butterflies , large blue Morphos and narrow , weak - winged Heliconid¿ , striped and spotted with yellow , red , and black , were the most conspicuous and most characteristic of tropical America . Amongst the beetles I found a ...
... numerous butterflies , large blue Morphos and narrow , weak - winged Heliconid¿ , striped and spotted with yellow , red , and black , were the most conspicuous and most characteristic of tropical America . Amongst the beetles I found a ...
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... numerous half - filled - up channels and long lagoons throughout the delta show the various courses the river has at different times taken . Our boatmen paddled on until nine o'clock , when we anchored in the middle of the stream ...
... numerous half - filled - up channels and long lagoons throughout the delta show the various courses the river has at different times taken . Our boatmen paddled on until nine o'clock , when we anchored in the middle of the stream ...
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... numerous tracks of alligators , but it was too early to look for their eggs in the sand ; a month later , in March , when the river falls , they are found in abundance , and eaten by the canoe - men . At noon we reached the point where ...
... numerous tracks of alligators , but it was too early to look for their eggs in the sand ; a month later , in March , when the river falls , they are found in abundance , and eaten by the canoe - men . At noon we reached the point where ...
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... numerous climbing plants that bound it together . saw one of the large olive - green and brown mot - mots I HEADS OF MOT - MOTS . ( Momotus marti ) , sitting up on a branch of a tree , moving its long curious tail from side to side , so ...
... numerous climbing plants that bound it together . saw one of the large olive - green and brown mot - mots I HEADS OF MOT - MOTS . ( Momotus marti ) , sitting up on a branch of a tree , moving its long curious tail from side to side , so ...
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