Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page 86
... allied species in Rio de Janeiro has excavated a tunnel under the bed of the river Parahyba , where it is about a quarter of a mile wide ! These ants seem to prefer introduced to native trees ; and young plantations of orange , coffee ...
... allied species in Rio de Janeiro has excavated a tunnel under the bed of the river Parahyba , where it is about a quarter of a mile wide ! These ants seem to prefer introduced to native trees ; and young plantations of orange , coffee ...
Page 101
... allied forms ; to- gether with their affectionate natures , aptitude for domestication , and powers of mimicry - combine to render them at once the most conspicuous and the most attractive of all the specially tropical forms of bird ...
... allied forms ; to- gether with their affectionate natures , aptitude for domestication , and powers of mimicry - combine to render them at once the most conspicuous and the most attractive of all the specially tropical forms of bird ...
Page 107
... allied ) , and that as they increased in size and required more food , only those could obtain a sufficiency whose un- usually large beaks enabled them to reach furthest . So large and broad a bill as they now possess would not be ...
... allied ) , and that as they increased in size and required more food , only those could obtain a sufficiency whose un- usually large beaks enabled them to reach furthest . So large and broad a bill as they now possess would not be ...
Page 117
... allied form of Lemurs ; and they never fail to impress the observer with a sense of the exuberant vitality of the tropics . They are pre- eminently arboreal in their mode of life , and are consequently most abundant and varied where ...
... allied form of Lemurs ; and they never fail to impress the observer with a sense of the exuberant vitality of the tropics . They are pre- eminently arboreal in their mode of life , and are consequently most abundant and varied where ...
Page 139
... allied species on Chimborazo ranges from fourteen thousand feet to the limits of perpetual snow at sixteen thousand feet elevation . It frequents a beautiful yellow - flowered alpine shrub belonging to the Asteraceæ . On the extinct ...
... allied species on Chimborazo ranges from fourteen thousand feet to the limits of perpetual snow at sixteen thousand feet elevation . It frequents a beautiful yellow - flowered alpine shrub belonging to the Asteraceæ . On the extinct ...
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