The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise : a Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and NatureHarper & Brother, 1885 - 638 páginas |
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... nearly three thousand bird - skins , of about a thou- sand species ; and at least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies , of about seven thousand species ; besides some quadrupeds and land- shells . A large proportion of these I had ...
... nearly three thousand bird - skins , of about a thou- sand species ; and at least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies , of about seven thousand species ; besides some quadrupeds and land- shells . A large proportion of these I had ...
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... nearly equal in extent , which widely differ in their natural products , and really form parts of two of the primary divisions of the earth . I have been able to prove this in considerable detail by my observations on the natural ...
... nearly equal in extent , which widely differ in their natural products , and really form parts of two of the primary divisions of the earth . I have been able to prove this in considerable detail by my observations on the natural ...
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... nearly identical in all its animal forms with the peninsula of Malacca that we may safely conclude it to have been the most recently dismembered island . The general result , therefore , at which we arrive is , that the great islands of ...
... nearly identical in all its animal forms with the peninsula of Malacca that we may safely conclude it to have been the most recently dismembered island . The general result , therefore , at which we arrive is , that the great islands of ...
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... nearly nine months , and made an immense collection of insects , to which class of animals I devoted my chief attention , owing to the circumstances being especially favorable . In the tropics a large proportion of the insects of all ...
... nearly nine months , and made an immense collection of insects , to which class of animals I devoted my chief attention , owing to the circumstances being especially favorable . In the tropics a large proportion of the insects of all ...
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... nearly three hundred species , nine - tenths of which were entirely new , and many of them remarkable for their large size , strange forms , and beautiful coloring . The latter corre- spond to our weevils and allied groups , and in the ...
... nearly three hundred species , nine - tenths of which were entirely new , and many of them remarkable for their large size , strange forms , and beautiful coloring . The latter corre- spond to our weevils and allied groups , and in the ...
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