The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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Page 4
... look , and beautiful tanagers ( Ramphocælus passerinii ) frequent the outskirts of the forest , all velvety black , excepting a large patch of fiery - red above the tail , which renders the bird very Ch . I. ] BEETLES RESEMBLING ...
... look , and beautiful tanagers ( Ramphocælus passerinii ) frequent the outskirts of the forest , all velvety black , excepting a large patch of fiery - red above the tail , which renders the bird very Ch . I. ] BEETLES RESEMBLING ...
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... look for a stick to throw at him ; but when I turned again , he was just disappearing into the water . It is the habit of these animals to lie quite still , and catch animals that come near them . Whether or not he was waiting until I ...
... look for a stick to throw at him ; but when I turned again , he was just disappearing into the water . It is the habit of these animals to lie quite still , and catch animals that come near them . Whether or not he was waiting until I ...
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... look for their eggs in the sand ; a month later , in March , when the river falls , they are found in abundance , and eaten by the canoe - men . At noon we reached the point where the Seripiqui , a river coming down from the interior of ...
... look for their eggs in the sand ; a month later , in March , when the river falls , they are found in abundance , and eaten by the canoe - men . At noon we reached the point where the Seripiqui , a river coming down from the interior of ...
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... look like the officers giving orders and directing the march of the column . This species is often met with in the forest , not in quest of one particular form of prey , but hunting , like Eciton predator , only spread out over a much ...
... look like the officers giving orders and directing the march of the column . This species is often met with in the forest , not in quest of one particular form of prey , but hunting , like Eciton predator , only spread out over a much ...
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... look about him , and kept continually talking in his own language , apparently surprised that the people around him did not understand what he was saying . He was taken to Castillo , and met there the woman who had been captured a year ...
... look about him , and kept continually talking in his own language , apparently surprised that the people around him did not understand what he was saying . He was taken to Castillo , and met there the woman who had been captured a year ...
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