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Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... - Page 125
by John George Wood - 1892 - 632 pages
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures ..., Volume 1

Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 396 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body of workers. The third order of workers is the most curious of all If the top of a small, fresh hillock, one in which...the extent of three or four feet without touching bottom, a small number of colossal fellows (Fig. 3) will slowly begin to make their way up the smooth...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 21

1863 - 580 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body of workers. " The third order of workers is the most curious of all. If the top of a small fresh hillock, one in which...the extent of three or four feet without touching bottom, a small number of colossal fellows will slowly begin to make their way up the smooth sides...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 118

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 pages
...of workers.' But the third order, the subterranean kind, we are told, is most curious of all : — ' If the top of a small, fresh hillock, one in which...a broad cylindrical shaft is disclosed, at a depth about two feet from the surface. If this bo probed with a stick, which may be done to the extent of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 118

1865 - 610 pages
...of workers.' But the third order, the subterranean kind, we are told, is most curious of all : — ' If the top of a small, fresh hillock, one in which the thatching process is going on, bo taken off, a broad cylindrical shaft is disclosed, at a depth about two feet from the surface. If...
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Catholic World, Volume 2

1866 - 900 pages
...of workers." But the third order, the subterranean kind, we are told, is the most curious of all : " If the top of a small, fresh hillock, one in which...a broad cylindrical shaft is disclosed, at a depth about two feet from the surface. If this be probed with a stick, which may be done to the extent of...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ...

Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 168 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body of • workers. The third order of workers is the most curious of all. If the top of a small fresh .hillock, one in which...the extent of three or four feet without touching bottom, ; a srr.al! number of colossal fellows (Fig. 3) -will slowly begin to make their way up the...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ...

Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 176 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body of • workers. The third order of workers is the most curious of all. If the top of a small fresh hillock, one in which...probed with a stick, which may be done to the extent of Ihree or four feet without touching bottom, » small number of colossal fellows (Fig. 3) will slowly...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ...

Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 162 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body nf workers. The third order of workers is the most curious of all. If the top of a small fresh hillock, one in which the thatching process U going on, be taken off, a broad cylindrical shaft is disclosed, at a depth of about two feet from...
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Strange dwellings. Abridged from 'Homes without hands'. Popular ed

John George Wood - 1882 - 110 pages
...scarcely ever resent the insult. The hairy-headed variety is still more enigmatical in its duties. ' Jf the top of a small, fresh hillock, one in which the...this be probed with a stick, which may be done to tho extent of three or four feet without touching the bottom, a small number of colossal fellows will...
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Ants and their ways

William Farren White - 1883 - 310 pages
...onslaughts made on the main body of workers. The third order of workers is the most curioas of all. If the top of a small fresh hillock, one in which the hatching process is going on, be taken off, a broad cylindrical shaft is disclosed, at a depth of about...
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