Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page 69
... types of animal life are restricted to one only out of the three great divisions of equatorial land , that they can hardly be claimed as characteristically tropical ; while the more extensive zoological groups which have a wide range in ...
... types of animal life are restricted to one only out of the three great divisions of equatorial land , that they can hardly be claimed as characteristically tropical ; while the more extensive zoological groups which have a wide range in ...
Page 79
... types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised , will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of biological science . " 1 1 Next after the butterflies in importance , as giving an air of life and interest ...
... types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised , will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of biological science . " 1 1 Next after the butterflies in importance , as giving an air of life and interest ...
Page 104
... types . The order Picaria comprises twenty - five families , some of which are very extensive . All are either wholly or mainly tropical , only two of the families - the wood- peckers and the kingfishers - having a few representa- tives ...
... types . The order Picaria comprises twenty - five families , some of which are very extensive . All are either wholly or mainly tropical , only two of the families - the wood- peckers and the kingfishers - having a few representa- tives ...
Page 120
... types - the monkeys and the bats - we look in vain among the varied forms of mam- malian life for any that can be said to be distinctive of the tropics as compared with the temperate regions . Many peculiar groups are tropical , but ...
... types - the monkeys and the bats - we look in vain among the varied forms of mam- malian life for any that can be said to be distinctive of the tropics as compared with the temperate regions . Many peculiar groups are tropical , but ...
Page 150
... type , as well as their small value for classification . Thus , the woodpeckers are most strikingly characterised by a very long and highly extensible tongue , with the muscles attached to the tongue - bone prolonged backward over the ...
... type , as well as their small value for classification . Thus , the woodpeckers are most strikingly characterised by a very long and highly extensible tongue , with the muscles attached to the tongue - bone prolonged backward over the ...
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