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1 The Hymenoptera standing at the head of the Articulata , and the Mammalia at
the head of the Vertebrata , it is curious to mark how , in geological history , the
appearance and development of these two orders ( culminating , one in the Ants
...
1 The Hymenoptera standing at the head of the Articulata , and the Mammalia at
the head of the Vertebrata , it is curious to mark how , in geological history , the
appearance and development of these two orders ( culminating , one in the Ants
...
Page 31
San Carlos is at the head of the river , where it issues from the great lake of
Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level
of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O . W . Childs , in
1851 ...
San Carlos is at the head of the river , where it issues from the great lake of
Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level
of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O . W . Childs , in
1851 ...
Page 107
Its body is purplish - red , with green reflections , the front of its head flat and
pearly white , and , when flying towards one , its white head is the only part seen .
Sometimes the green - throat would hold its ground , and then it was comical to
see ...
Its body is purplish - red , with green reflections , the front of its head flat and
pearly white , and , when flying towards one , its white head is the only part seen .
Sometimes the green - throat would hold its ground , and then it was comical to
see ...
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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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