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 659
... species of this singular genus are arboreal . I met with four species altogether . One was the Myrmeco phaga tetradactyla ; the two others , more curious and less known , were very small kinds , called Tamanduá - i . Both are similar in ...
... species of this singular genus are arboreal . I met with four species altogether . One was the Myrmeco phaga tetradactyla ; the two others , more curious and less known , were very small kinds , called Tamanduá - i . Both are similar in ...
Page 680
... species ; and on the Upper Amazons extent , the same as those of Santarem and the the sole species seen was the Mycetes ursinus , Tapajos . A few species of all orders , how- whose fur is of a shining yellowish - red color . ever , are ...
... species ; and on the Upper Amazons extent , the same as those of Santarem and the the sole species seen was the Mycetes ursinus , Tapajos . A few species of all orders , how- whose fur is of a shining yellowish - red color . ever , are ...
Page 695
... species of Trypoxylon , however , are all building wasps ; two of them which I observed ( T. albitarse and an undescribed species ) pro- vision their nests with spiders , a third ( T. autifrons ) with small caterpillars . Their habits ...
... species of Trypoxylon , however , are all building wasps ; two of them which I observed ( T. albitarse and an undescribed species ) pro- vision their nests with spiders , a third ( T. autifrons ) with small caterpillars . Their habits ...
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