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Title: Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Niles, Blair Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Natural history Birds
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company

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JUNGLE LIFE AT AREMU. 347 caterpillars was near by on a light-barked tree, all reactingor not according to whether we ejaculated sst! or buzz! Asbefore they were very conspicuous and made no attempt atconcealment, although at a distance they resembled a blackknot-hole on the trunk. But their role was evidently to
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Fig. 142. Indian Hunter bringing in a Peccary. depend on their threatening actions and their even morereliable stinging hairs. On the very floor of our shelter a tragedy was enacted. Asmall wasp (Notogonia sp.) less than an Inch in length witha splash of gilt on thorax and head, dashed upon a brown 348 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. cricket (Gryllus argentinus) more than twice its size, and stungit. Then the wasp left its prey and ran off about eight inchesto a round hole which it had excavated in the black woodmould. Back to the cricket again it came, turned it rightside up, seized it by the head and began to drag it along.Although I can hardly credit the wasp with the consciousintention, yet its sting had certainly been delivered in exactlythe right spot. The whole cricket was paralyzed exceptfor the two front pair of legs. The motor nerves of thesewere unaffected and they kept up a convulsive pulling andpushing which aided the wasp greatly in its difficult task.Indeed the wasp did li

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