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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Page 632
... live on the ground . The Gallinaceous birds of the country , the repre- sentatives of the fowls and pheasants of Asia and Africa , are all adapted by the position of the toes to perch on trees , and it is only on trees , at a great ...
... live on the ground . The Gallinaceous birds of the country , the repre- sentatives of the fowls and pheasants of Asia and Africa , are all adapted by the position of the toes to perch on trees , and it is only on trees , at a great ...
Page 659
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla are seen mov- ing along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ...
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla are seen mov- ing along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ...
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... live again amid these dull scenes I was quitting a coun- ry of perpetual summer , where my life had been spent , like that of three fourths of the people , in gypsy fashion , on the endless streams or in the boundless forests . I was ...
... live again amid these dull scenes I was quitting a coun- ry of perpetual summer , where my life had been spent , like that of three fourths of the people , in gypsy fashion , on the endless streams or in the boundless forests . I was ...
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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 larvæ 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