The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 111
... bushes . The dry slopes of hills are their favourite feeding - places , and around Peña Blanca they are rather plentiful ; and so , also , in their season , are the curassows and penelopes . In the lower ground , the footmarks of the ...
... bushes . The dry slopes of hills are their favourite feeding - places , and around Peña Blanca they are rather plentiful ; and so , also , in their season , are the curassows and penelopes . In the lower ground , the footmarks of the ...
Page 222
... bushes are much chosen , especially the bull's - horn thorn , which I have already described . Many birds hang their nests from the extremities of the branches , and a safer place could hardly be chosen , as with the sharp thorns and ...
... bushes are much chosen , especially the bull's - horn thorn , which I have already described . Many birds hang their nests from the extremities of the branches , and a safer place could hardly be chosen , as with the sharp thorns and ...
Page 258
... bushes that it was some time before we discovered the cause . At last we found that the noise was made by large iguana lizards , some of them three feet long , and very bulky , dropping from the branches of trees , on which they lay ...
... bushes that it was some time before we discovered the cause . At last we found that the noise was made by large iguana lizards , some of them three feet long , and very bulky , dropping from the branches of trees , on which they lay ...
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