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Page 81
... and wasps - Humming - birds , beetles , and ants Plants and trees - Timber -
Monkey attacked by eagle - Whitefaced monkey - Anecdotes of a tame one -
Curassows and other game birds - Trogons , woodpeckers , mot - mots , and
toucans .
... and wasps - Humming - birds , beetles , and ants Plants and trees - Timber -
Monkey attacked by eagle - Whitefaced monkey - Anecdotes of a tame one -
Curassows and other game birds - Trogons , woodpeckers , mot - mots , and
toucans .
Page 137
The fallen trunks of trees were a likely place for beetles , and as I had brought a
lantern with me , I stayed to examine them whilst Velasquez rode on to get some
food ready . At night many species of beetles , especially longicorns , are to be ...
The fallen trunks of trees were a likely place for beetles , and as I had brought a
lantern with me , I stayed to examine them whilst Velasquez rode on to get some
food ready . At night many species of beetles , especially longicorns , are to be ...
Page 243
This and other species of Calopteron are not only imitated in their colour and
markings by other families of beetles , but ... the same movement in a longicorn
beetle ( Evander nobilis , Bates ) , which is evidently a mimetic form of this genus
.
This and other species of Calopteron are not only imitated in their colour and
markings by other families of beetles , but ... the same movement in a longicorn
beetle ( Evander nobilis , Bates ) , which is evidently a mimetic form of this genus
.
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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