The Great Mountains and Forests of South AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 306 pages |
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... young unfledged birds , and also eggs , both of which they greedily devour . I have seen them pecking up the ground , like rooks , in their search for grubs and insects ; and they can easily be caught in traps baited with small pieces ...
... young unfledged birds , and also eggs , both of which they greedily devour . I have seen them pecking up the ground , like rooks , in their search for grubs and insects ; and they can easily be caught in traps baited with small pieces ...
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... young animals , birds , and eggs at almost all seasons in different parts of the Amazon Valley . During the fortnight we were crawling up the Amazon , at the average rate of little more than a mile an hour , the number of steamers ...
... young animals , birds , and eggs at almost all seasons in different parts of the Amazon Valley . During the fortnight we were crawling up the Amazon , at the average rate of little more than a mile an hour , the number of steamers ...
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... young ones clinging to their breasts , the arms and legs being clasped around the mother's neck and body - the usual , but not the invariable , way of carrying the young among American monkeys . The report of a 38 MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS ...
... young ones clinging to their breasts , the arms and legs being clasped around the mother's neck and body - the usual , but not the invariable , way of carrying the young among American monkeys . The report of a 38 MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS ...
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Paul Fountain. the young among American monkeys . The report of a gun fired at a bird gave these monkeys such a fright that they instantly disappeared and remained quite silent , and it was not until we got to another part of the forest ...
Paul Fountain. the young among American monkeys . The report of a gun fired at a bird gave these monkeys such a fright that they instantly disappeared and remained quite silent , and it was not until we got to another part of the forest ...
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... young ones in it . It was roughly constructed of coarse grasses lined with feathers , and placed among sedge some yards ' distance from the water's edge . A similar nest which I found on another occasion was placed almost touching the ...
... young ones in it . It was roughly constructed of coarse grasses lined with feathers , and placed among sedge some yards ' distance from the water's edge . A similar nest which I found on another occasion was placed almost touching the ...
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