Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page ix
... humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as showing the special mode in which natural selection has acted to bring about considerable changes in a limited period . The ...
... humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as showing the special mode in which natural selection has acted to bring about considerable changes in a limited period . The ...
Page xi
... Hornbills - Passeres - Reptiles and Amphibia - Lizards - Snakes- Frogs and Toads - Mammalia - Monkeys - Bats - Summary of the Aspects of Animal Life in the Tropics . pages 69-123 IV . HUMMING - BIRDS : AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE.
... Hornbills - Passeres - Reptiles and Amphibia - Lizards - Snakes- Frogs and Toads - Mammalia - Monkeys - Bats - Summary of the Aspects of Animal Life in the Tropics . pages 69-123 IV . HUMMING - BIRDS : AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE.
Page xii
... Humming - Birds - Display of Ornaments by the Male - Food -Geographical Distribution and Variation - Humming - Birds of Juan Fernandez as illustrating Variation and Natural Selection - The Relations and Affinities of Humming - Birds ...
... Humming - Birds - Display of Ornaments by the Male - Food -Geographical Distribution and Variation - Humming - Birds of Juan Fernandez as illustrating Variation and Natural Selection - The Relations and Affinities of Humming - Birds ...
Page 76
... humming - birds . The places they frequent , and their mode of resting , are various and often remarkable . A considerable number frequent damp open places , especially river sides and the margins of pools , assembling together in ...
... humming - birds . The places they frequent , and their mode of resting , are various and often remarkable . A considerable number frequent damp open places , especially river sides and the margins of pools , assembling together in ...
Page 110
... birds of tropical forests , which rarely or never appear in those of temperate lands . We have intensely lustrous metallic plumage in the jacamars , trogons , humming - birds , sun - birds , and paradise - birds ; as well as in some ...
... birds of tropical forests , which rarely or never appear in those of temperate lands . We have intensely lustrous metallic plumage in the jacamars , trogons , humming - birds , sun - birds , and paradise - birds ; as well as in some ...
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