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 TravelHumboldt Publishing Company, 1889 - 774 pages |
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... birds , having round the neck a frill of long white feathers tipped with golden green . I was not , however , so fortunate as to meet with it . Several times I shot by mistake a humming - bird hawk - moth instead of a bird . This moth ...
... birds , having round the neck a frill of long white feathers tipped with golden green . I was not , however , so fortunate as to meet with it . Several times I shot by mistake a humming - bird hawk - moth instead of a bird . This moth ...
Page 755
... birds ; indeed , it often happened that I did not meet with a single bird during a whole days ' ramble in the richest and most varied part of the wood . Yet the country is ten- anted by many hundred species , many of which are in ...
... birds ; indeed , it often happened that I did not meet with a single bird during a whole days ' ramble in the richest and most varied part of the wood . Yet the country is ten- anted by many hundred species , many of which are in ...
Page 756
... birds gathered together from the neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be- come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees ...
... birds gathered together from the neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be- come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees ...
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