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 632
... live on the ground . The Gallinaceous birds of the country , the repre- sentatives of the fowls and pheasants of Asia and Africa , are all adapted by the position of the toes to perch on trees , and it is only on trees , at a great ...
... live on the ground . The Gallinaceous birds of the country , the repre- sentatives of the fowls and pheasants of Asia and Africa , are all adapted by the position of the toes to perch on trees , and it is only on trees , at a great ...
Page 659
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla are seen mov- ing along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ...
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla are seen mov- ing along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ...
Page 720
... live on the banks of the main stream , but on the shores of inlets and lakes . 64 Canoe - men on the Upper Amazons live in The fishermen twice brought me small constant dread of the terras chaidas , " or rounded pieces of very porous ...
... live on the banks of the main stream , but on the shores of inlets and lakes . 64 Canoe - men on the Upper Amazons live in The fishermen twice brought me small constant dread of the terras chaidas , " or rounded pieces of very porous ...
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