The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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... Central America - Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics - Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The refuge of the tropical American animals and ...
... Central America - Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics - Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The refuge of the tropical American animals and ...
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... Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of the Spaniards - The designation " Nahuatls " proposed to include all the Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian races that ...
... Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of the Spaniards - The designation " Nahuatls " proposed to include all the Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian races that ...
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... Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a low flat coast stretching before us . It was the delta of the river San Juan , into which flows the drainage of a great part of Nicaragua and Costa Rica , and which is the ...
... Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a low flat coast stretching before us . It was the delta of the river San Juan , into which flows the drainage of a great part of Nicaragua and Costa Rica , and which is the ...
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... Central America . Whilst the leaf - cutting ants are entirely vegetable feeders , the foraging ants are hunters , and live solely on insects or other prey ; and it is a curious analogy that , like the hunting races of mankind , they ...
... Central America . Whilst the leaf - cutting ants are entirely vegetable feeders , the foraging ants are hunters , and live solely on insects or other prey ; and it is a curious analogy that , like the hunting races of mankind , they ...
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... Central America I place the Eciton as the first in intel- ligence , and as such at the head of the Articulata . Wasps and bees come next to ants , and then others of the Hymenoptera . Between ants and the lower forms of insects there is ...
... Central America I place the Eciton as the first in intel- ligence , and as such at the head of the Articulata . Wasps and bees come next to ants , and then others of the Hymenoptera . Between ants and the lower forms of insects there is ...
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amongst ancient animals ants Atlantic attacks beautiful beetles birds branches brushwood bushes butterflies carried cattle Central America Chontales colour continued couvade covered crossed dark Depilto dogs Ecitons feet flowers forest fresh-water fruit glacial period gold grass green Greytown ground hills Indians inhabitants insects islands Jinotega journey Juigalpa lake land larvæ leaf-cutting ants leaves Libertad live lodes longicorn look maize Masaya Matagalpa Mexico miles mines mountain mules Nahuatls natives nearly nest Nicaragua night numerous o'clock Ocotal passed plains plants prey probably quartz quartz veins rain range reached resemblance Rio Frio river road rocks rocky San Ubaldo Santo Domingo savannahs seen side slope soon Spaniards species spiders steep stones surface Teustepe tion told Totagalpa town trachyte travelling trees trogons tropical America valley variety vegetation Velasquez wasp whilst wings yellow young