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 693
... sand wasps . A small pale green kind of Bembex ( Bembex ciliata ) was plenti- ful near the bay of Mapirí . When they are at work a number of little jets of sand are seen shooting over the surface of the sloping banks . The little miners ...
... sand wasps . A small pale green kind of Bembex ( Bembex ciliata ) was plenti- ful near the bay of Mapirí . When they are at work a number of little jets of sand are seen shooting over the surface of the sloping banks . The little miners ...
Page 736
... sand ; for toward the south - east , where no forest line terminates the view , the white rolling plain stretches away to the horizon . The north - easterly channel of the river , lying between the sands and the farther shore of the ...
... sand ; for toward the south - east , where no forest line terminates the view , the white rolling plain stretches away to the horizon . The north - easterly channel of the river , lying between the sands and the farther shore of the ...
Page 744
... sand : they reminded me of the remains of Ichthyo- sauri fossilized in beds of lias , with the dif- ference of being buried in fine sand instead of in blue mud . I marked the place of one which had a well - preserved skull , and the ...
... sand : they reminded me of the remains of Ichthyo- sauri fossilized in beds of lias , with the dif- ference of being buried in fine sand instead of in blue mud . I marked the place of one which had a well - preserved skull , and the ...
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