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
... 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 - Reach ...
... 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 - Reach ...
Page x
... Nests - Some Trees are not touched by the Ants - Foreign Trees are very subject to their attack Method of Destroying the Ants - Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort of Madness amongst them ...
... Nests - Some Trees are not touched by the Ants - Foreign Trees are very subject to their attack Method of Destroying the Ants - Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort of Madness amongst them ...
Page xi
... Nest of Myriapods - Ascent of Peña Blanca - Tapirs and Jaguars — Summit of Peña Blanca CHAPTER IX . • Journey to Juigalpa - Description of Libertad - The Priest and the Bell - Migratory Butterflies and Moths -- Indian Graves - Ancient ...
... Nest of Myriapods - Ascent of Peña Blanca - Tapirs and Jaguars — Summit of Peña Blanca CHAPTER IX . • Journey to Juigalpa - Description of Libertad - The Priest and the Bell - Migratory Butterflies and Moths -- Indian Graves - Ancient ...
Page xiii
... Nests . CHAPTER XVI . Concordia - Jinotega - Indian Habits retained by the People — Indian Names of Towns - Security of Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable Lodgings - Tierrabona - Dust Whirl- wind - Initial ...
... Nests . CHAPTER XVI . Concordia - Jinotega - Indian Habits retained by the People — Indian Names of Towns - Security of Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable Lodgings - Tierrabona - Dust Whirl- wind - Initial ...
Page xv
... NEST OF LEAF - CUTTING ANT SECTION OF MINE SHOWING METHOD OF EXTRACTING THE ORE QUARTZ - STAMPING MACHINERY SECTION OF SAN ANTONIO LODE . HUMMING - BIRDS ( Florisuga mellivora , Linn . ) Frontispiece . PAGE 9 16 66 80 92 93 94 111 ...
... NEST OF LEAF - CUTTING ANT SECTION OF MINE SHOWING METHOD OF EXTRACTING THE ORE QUARTZ - STAMPING MACHINERY SECTION OF SAN ANTONIO LODE . HUMMING - BIRDS ( Florisuga mellivora , Linn . ) Frontispiece . PAGE 9 16 66 80 92 93 94 111 ...
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