 Others are dull earth-coloured, and hide in holes and under logs. All these come out only at night to feed, and they are all preyed upon by snakes and birds. In contrast with these obscurely...  Animal studies - Página 357por David Starr Jordan - 1903 - 459 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 páginas
...other example amongst the vertebrata, and it was also a reptile. In the woods around Santo Domingo there are many frogs. Some are green or brown, and imitate green or dead leaves, and live amongst foliage. Others are dull earth-coloured, and hide in holes and under logs. All these come out... | |
 | Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - 1890 - 394 páginas
...example has been afforded by Mr. Belt's acute powers of observation.1 ' In the woods around Santo Domingo there are many frogs. Some are green or brown, and imitate green or dead leaves, and live amongst foliage. Others are dull earth-coloured, and hide in holes and under logs. All these come out... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 páginas
...which Belt gives is that of a certain gaily-coloured frog : — "In the woods around Santo Domingo there are many frogs. Some are green or brown, and imitate green or dead leaves, and live amongst foliage. Others are dull earth-coloured, and hide in holes and under logs. All these come out... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1907 - 528 páginas
...black and brown. Some of the venomous snakes are conspicuously colored, as the coral snakes (Elaps) or coralillos of the tropics. The naturalist Belt,...frogs. Some are green or brown and imitate green or ileud leaves, and livp among foliage. Others are dull earth-colored, and hide in holes or under logs.... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg - 1907 - 530 páginas
...black and brown. Some of the venomous snakes are conspicuously colored, as the coral snakes (Elaps) or coralillos of the tropics. The naturalist Belt,..."In the woods around Santo Domingo (Nicaragua) there arc many frogs. Some are green or brown and imitate green or dead leaves. and live among foliage. Others... | |
 | 1874 - 488 páginas
...one other example amongst the Vertebrata, and it was also a reptile. In the wood around Santa Domingo there are many frogs. Some are green or brown, and imitate green or dead leaves, and live amongst foliage. Others are dirty earth-coloured, and hide in holes and under logs. All these come... | |
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