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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... PATH UP STEEP HILL QUISCALUS BULL'S - HORN THORN .. LEAF OF MELASTOMA 193 213 218 223 NATIVE STILL 233 · NATIVE PLOUGH 239 GEOLOGICAL SECTION NEAR OCOTAL . 261 HORNET AND MIMETIC BUG GEOLOGICAL SECTION AT Masaya LONGICORN BEETLES.
... PATH UP STEEP HILL QUISCALUS BULL'S - HORN THORN .. LEAF OF MELASTOMA 193 213 218 223 NATIVE STILL 233 · NATIVE PLOUGH 239 GEOLOGICAL SECTION NEAR OCOTAL . 261 HORNET AND MIMETIC BUG GEOLOGICAL SECTION AT Masaya LONGICORN BEETLES.
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... paths cut by charcoal burners , and saw many beautiful and curious insects . Amongst the numerous butterflies , large blue Morphos and narrow , weak - winged Heliconidae , striped and spotted with yellow , red , and black , were the ...
... paths cut by charcoal burners , and saw many beautiful and curious insects . Amongst the numerous butterflies , large blue Morphos and narrow , weak - winged Heliconidae , striped and spotted with yellow , red , and black , were the ...
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... paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of introduced species - which are left bare and ragged , with the midribs and a few jagged points of the leaves only left . Many ...
... paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of introduced species - which are left bare and ragged , with the midribs and a few jagged points of the leaves only left . Many ...
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... path . As it proceeds , other paths , each thronged with busy workers , come in from the sides , until the main road often gets to be seven or eight inches broad , and more thronged than the streets of the city of London . When the ...
... path . As it proceeds , other paths , each thronged with busy workers , come in from the sides , until the main road often gets to be seven or eight inches broad , and more thronged than the streets of the city of London . When the ...
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... paths leading to them , all thronged with the busy workers carrying their leafy burdens . As far as the eye can distinguish their tiny forms , troops upon troops of leaves are moving up towards the central point , and disappearing down ...
... paths leading to them , all thronged with the busy workers carrying their leafy burdens . As far as the eye can distinguish their tiny forms , troops upon troops of leaves are moving up towards the central point , and disappearing down ...
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