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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... color , but the male of Jacapa has a beautiful velvety purple and black plumage , the beak being partly white , while the same sex in Episcopus is of a pale blue color , with white spots on the wings . In their habits they both resemble ...
... color , but the male of Jacapa has a beautiful velvety purple and black plumage , the beak being partly white , while the same sex in Episcopus is of a pale blue color , with white spots on the wings . In their habits they both resemble ...
Page 627
... color from the surrounding soil , which were thrown up in the plantations and woods . Some of them were very extensive , being forty yards in circumference , but not more than two feet in height . We soon ascertained that these were the ...
... color from the surrounding soil , which were thrown up in the plantations and woods . Some of them were very extensive , being forty yards in circumference , but not more than two feet in height . We soon ascertained that these were the ...
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... Color in Animals . Chapter II . - The Struggle for Existence . Chapter III . - The Variability of Species in a State of Nature . Chapter Chapter IX . - Warning Coloration and Mimicry . X. Colors and Ornaments character- istic of Sex ...
... Color in Animals . Chapter II . - The Struggle for Existence . Chapter III . - The Variability of Species in a State of Nature . Chapter Chapter IX . - Warning Coloration and Mimicry . X. Colors and Ornaments character- istic of Sex ...
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