 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 482 páginas
...various species making a terrible discord. Added to these noises were the songs of strange Cicadas, one large kind perched high on the trees around our little haven setting up a most piercing chirp : it began with the usual harsh jarring tone of its tribe, but this... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 176 páginas
...various species making a terrible discord. Added to these noises were the songs of strange Cicadas, one large kind perched high on the trees around our little haven setting up a most piercing chirp ; it began with the usual harsh jarring tone of its tribe, but this... | |
 | 1882 - 726 páginas
...the body and named spiracles; these openings being capable of closure at the will of the insect—a matter of absolute necessity for its safety during...note, resembling the steam whistle of a locomotive engine.' Thus much by way of introduction to the cicada and its music. Both sexes possess the musical... | |
 | Hastings Charles Dent - 1886 - 536 páginas
...it is only when the insect is at rest and invisible that the sound is produced. Mr. Bates says,f " One large kind, perched high on the trees around our...little haven, set up a most piercing chirp; it began with the usual harsh jarring tone of its tribe, but this gradually and rapidly became shriller, until... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1887 - 382 páginas
...of these insects. The breathing organs of insects consist of a complicated arrangement of trachete or delicate air-tubes which ramify throughout their...this gradually and rapidly became shriller, until it ended in a long and loud note, resembling the steam whistle of a locomotive engine." Thus much by... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1898 - 378 páginas
...the body and named spiracles ; these openings being capable of closure at the will of the insect—a matter of absolute necessity for its safety during...this gradually and rapidly became shriller, until it ended in a long and loud note, resembling the steam whistle of a locomotive engine." Thus much by... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 2004 - 452 páginas
...various species making a terrible discord. Added to these noises were the songs of strange Cicadas, one large kind perched high on the trees around our little haven setting up a most piercing chirp : it began with the usual harsh jarring tone of its tribe, but this... | |
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Troops of parrots, including the hyacinthine macaw we were in search of, began then to pass over ; the different styles of cawing and screaming of the various species making a terrible discord. Added to these noises were the songs of strange Cicadas,... 