Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... living thing , But bird and insect ever on the wing , Flitting ' mid forest glades and tangled bowers , While the life - giving orb's effulgent beams Through all the circling year call forth the flowers . Here graceful palms , here ...
... living thing , But bird and insect ever on the wing , Flitting ' mid forest glades and tangled bowers , While the life - giving orb's effulgent beams Through all the circling year call forth the flowers . Here graceful palms , here ...
Page xiii
... LIVING THINGS TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT . - The Influence of Locality on Colour in Butterflies and Birds - Sense - perception influenced by Colour of the Integuments— Relations of Insular Plants and Insects - RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN ...
... LIVING THINGS TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT . - The Influence of Locality on Colour in Butterflies and Birds - Sense - perception influenced by Colour of the Integuments— Relations of Insular Plants and Insects - RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN ...
Page 48
... Sometimes they form clusters of foliage on living or dead trees to which they cling by their aerial roots . Others climb up the smooth bark of large trees , sending out roots as they 48 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
... Sometimes they form clusters of foliage on living or dead trees to which they cling by their aerial roots . Others climb up the smooth bark of large trees , sending out roots as they 48 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
Page 52
... living foliage . - Such clumps are often eighty or a hundred feet high , the glossy stems , perhaps six inches thick at the base , spring- ing up at first straight as an arrow , tapering gradually to a slender point , and bending over ...
... living foliage . - Such clumps are often eighty or a hundred feet high , the glossy stems , perhaps six inches thick at the base , spring- ing up at first straight as an arrow , tapering gradually to a slender point , and bending over ...
Page 61
... living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy flowers are so rare , that weeks and months may be passed without observing a single flowering plant worthy of special admiration ...
... living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy flowers are so rare , that weeks and months may be passed without observing a single flowering plant worthy of special admiration ...
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abundant adapted adorned Africa allied Amazon animals ants attract bamboo Batavia beautiful become beetles birds blue Borneo brilliant butterflies carnivora causes change of colour character characteristic climate Colours of Animals conspicuous continent curious Danaidæ Darwin distinct elegant equatorial zone existence extensive fact families favourable feet female ferns fertilization flowers foliage forest-trees fruits genera genus greater green groups habits heat humming-birds hyænas immense inhabit insects Juan Fernandez kinds land larger larvæ leaves lemurs less light Madagascar Malay Archipelago male mammalia Miocene monkeys natural selection naturalists nests North observed occur organic ornaments Palearctic palms parrots peculiar perhaps phenomena plants plumage probably produced proportion protection rays region remarkable resemble sexual selection showy slender sometimes South America species spots structure sun-birds surface tail temperate zones temperature theory tints tion toucans trees trunks uneatable variation varied variety various vegetation whole wings yellow