 | Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - 1890 - 360 lehte
...which are extremely fond of insects, will not eat them, as I have proved over and over again.' 2 ' I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies...caught, the birds never brought one to their nest.' A tame white-faced monkey ' would greedily munch up beetle or butterfly given to him, and I used to... | |
 | Samuel Hubbard Scudder - 1895 - 279 lehte
...distasteful to birds has been shown again and again. Thus Belt says, in his "Naturalist in Nicaragua": — " I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that some...their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood, and are of weak flight, so as to be easily caught, the birds never brought one to their... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1904
...other fcetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in TTte Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following: "Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1904
...other foetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in The Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following: " Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak... | |
 | Royal Entomological Society of London - 1910
...are never particular " : P. Hahnel, " Iris," 1890, p. 317 (Amazons). Birds not identified : — (a) " I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies...caught, the birds never brought one to their nest " : T. Belt, " Naturalist in Nicaragua," p. 316. — (V) Of a Brazilian bird called " Suruqua," the... | |
 | ...other foetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in The Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following : "Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Helicon swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak flight... | |
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I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that some birds, if not all, reject the Heliconii butterflies, which are closely resembled by butterflies of other families and by moths. I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragonflies... 