The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelJ. Fitzgerald, 1880 - 150 pages |
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... birds , having round the neck a frill of long white feathers tipped with golden green . I was not , however , so fortunate as to meet with it . Several times I shot by mistake a humming bird hawk - moth instead of a bird . This moth ...
... birds , having round the neck a frill of long white feathers tipped with golden green . I was not , however , so fortunate as to meet with it . Several times I shot by mistake a humming bird hawk - moth instead of a bird . This moth ...
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... birds ; indeed , it often happened that I did not meet with a single bird during a whole days ' ramble in the richest and most varied part of the wood . Yet the country is ten- anted by many hundred species , many of which are in ...
... birds ; indeed , it often happened that I did not meet with a single bird during a whole days ' ramble in the richest and most varied part of the wood . Yet the country is ten- anted by many hundred species , many of which are in ...
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... birds gathered together from the neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees ...
... birds gathered together from the neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees ...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2007 |
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afterward alligators animal ants appearance ashore banks beautiful birds boat branches Brazilian broad cacao Cafuzo called Cametá campos canoe Cardozo Caripí channel clothed coast color creek distance dry season Ecitons eggs farinha feet fish flocks foliage Fonte Boa forest fruit ground habits hammocks head height inches Indians inhabitants insects interior islands Japurá kind lake land larv¿ leaves length live lower main river mameluco mandioca miles monkeys montaria morning mouth Mundurucús natives nearly neighborhood neighboring night o'clock Obydos paddle palms Pará Pará river passed plants Portuguese ramble Rio Negro road rocinha sand sandy Santarem seemed seen Senhor shade shape shore side Solimoens species stream Tabatinga tail Tapajos tion Tocantins Toucans travelling trees tribes trunks Tupí turtles Upper Amazons vegetation vessel Villa Nova village voyage walk wild wind wings woods yards young