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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Page 704
... hands and tail , right themselves in a moment , and then away they go along branch and bough to the next tree . The Caiarára owes its name in the Tupí language , macaw or large - headed ( Acain , head , and Arára macaw ) , to the ...
... hands and tail , right themselves in a moment , and then away they go along branch and bough to the next tree . The Caiarára owes its name in the Tupí language , macaw or large - headed ( Acain , head , and Arára macaw ) , to the ...
Page 734
... hands . 64 " " 66 caäpoeira of various ages , the sites of old plantations . The only fruits of our ramble were a few rare insects and a Japú ( Cassicus cristatus ) a handsome bird with chestnut and saffron - colored plumage , which ...
... hands . 64 " " 66 caäpoeira of various ages , the sites of old plantations . The only fruits of our ramble were a few rare insects and a Japú ( Cassicus cristatus ) a handsome bird with chestnut and saffron - colored plumage , which ...
Page 753
... hands on the palms and ally for food . The species is very numerous tips of the outstretched fingers , with the in the forests of the higher lands , but , owing knuckles bent at an acute angle , and thus to long persecution , it is now ...
... hands on the palms and ally for food . The species is very numerous tips of the outstretched fingers , with the in the forests of the higher lands , but , owing knuckles bent at an acute angle , and thus to long persecution , it is now ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2015 |
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