The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 19
... insects , take shelter in the first hiding - place they found , only to be driven out again , or perhaps caught by ... insects they disturb . Besides the ant- thrushes , trogons , creepers , and a variety of other birds , are often seen ...
... insects , take shelter in the first hiding - place they found , only to be driven out again , or perhaps caught by ... insects they disturb . Besides the ant- thrushes , trogons , creepers , and a variety of other birds , are often seen ...
Page 143
... insects there can be no doubt ; and it is curious that it should have attacked so many different species and classes . I am not sure that it was confined to the insects , for there was also a great mortality amongst the fowls , many ...
... insects there can be no doubt ; and it is curious that it should have attacked so many different species and classes . I am not sure that it was confined to the insects , for there was also a great mortality amongst the fowls , many ...
Page 175
... insects that will protect the flower - buds and leaves from being injured by herbivorous insects and mammals , but I do not mean to infer that this is the use of all glands , for many of the small appendicular bodies , called " glands ...
... insects that will protect the flower - buds and leaves from being injured by herbivorous insects and mammals , but I do not mean to infer that this is the use of all glands , for many of the small appendicular bodies , called " glands ...
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