The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

temperate Europe and America, and in the barren north-polar regions. But there is another set of facts, which hel ...

In my more special pursuits, I had very little success upon the mountain— owing, perhaps, to the excessivel ...

CHAPTER VIII. SUMATRA. (NOVEMBER 1861 to JANUARY 1862.) The mail steamer from Batavia to Singapore took me ...

head of the delta of the river, and between it and the sea there is very little ground elevated above highw ...

an elevated forest-clad country, so that I began to think it would be useless going on, as the time at ...

the case in the district of Menangkabo, further west. The floor is made of split bamboo, and is rather shaky, ...

the numerous examples I have met with of the good effects of the Dutch Government. It exerc ...

extraordinary female closely resembles (when flying) another butterfly of the same genus but of a different ...

suddenly start out again and then disappear in a similar place. If at length I was fortunate enough to ...

Every tint of yellow, ash, brown, and red is found here, and in many specimens there occur patches and sp ...

so tightly as to hurt it. It was rather savage at first, and tried to bite; but when we had released it a ...

and blotches, resembles closely the colour of mottled bark, and no doubt helps to protect it. Once, in a brigh ...

on any part of it. It was exceedingly plump and soft, and with a semi-transparent skin, so that it looked ...

CHAPTER IX. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INDO-MALAY ISLANDS. IN the first CHAPTER of this work I have stated genera ...

water, and are drifted by winds and currents to distant shores. Pigeons, and other fruit-eating birds, are a ...

which about eight are found also in Burma and India. Among these are the tiger, leopard, a tiger-cat, c ...

five hoofed animals, including the Tapir, two species of rhinoceros, and an elephant. Besides ...

islands they inhabit. This, however, is not the case. A very large number of birds appear to be as st ...

as if the Isle of Man possessed a peculiar species of thrush and blackbird, distinct from ...

The Mammalia have not been collected with sufficient completeness in both islands to make a general com ...