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I have sometimes come across the migratory columns . They may easily be
known by all the common workers moving in one direction , many of them
carrying the larv¿ and pupa carefully in their jaws . Here and there one of the
light - coloured ...
I have sometimes come across the migratory columns . They may easily be
known by all the common workers moving in one direction , many of them
carrying the larv¿ and pupa carefully in their jaws . Here and there one of the
light - coloured ...
Page 84
Sometimes I tried to chase one of them up to a corner where on the wall a large
cockroach - eating spider stood motionless , looking out for his prey ; the
cockroach would rush away from me in great fear ; but as soon as it came within
a foot of ...
Sometimes I tried to chase one of them up to a corner where on the wall a large
cockroach - eating spider stood motionless , looking out for his prey ; the
cockroach would rush away from me in great fear ; but as soon as it came within
a foot of ...
Page 90
Sometimes , but more rarely , we would fall in with a troop of the white - faced
cebus monkey , rapidly running away , throwing themselves from tree to tree .
This monkey feeds also partly on fruit , but is incessantly on the look - out for
insects ...
Sometimes , but more rarely , we would fall in with a troop of the white - faced
cebus monkey , rapidly running away , throwing themselves from tree to tree .
This monkey feeds also partly on fruit , but is incessantly on the look - out for
insects ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 651. number of Everyman's Library 651. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent, 1911 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 16 dets. 2014 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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