Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand Volume 8 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...inches above it, according to the lay of the ground, and it will be strange indeed, if you do not detect somewhere, a little round ring on the ground, or amongst the herbage, marking the lip of the trap-door, where it fits to the beveled mouth of the nest. I do not say you will find every one this way, for some are so skilfully concealed, as to defeat every search made for them, and others (specimens of some of which are before you), were only discovered by accident, and would never, I believe, havo been discovered in any other way; the above, however, gives a clue which aids immensely in the search for them. Nests and their distinctions. The nests are in reality, tunnels of varying size, dug into the ground, and lined more or less with silk of varying thickness and consistency, and with a lid or trap-door hinged to the mouth. Moggridge distinguishes four types of trap-door nests (see page 79), in the world at large, and names them. First, the single-door cork nest, or shortly, the cork nest; second, the single-door wafer nest; third, the double-door unbranched nest; and fourth, the double-door branched nest. The distinction here drawn, between the first and second type consists in the thickness of the door; the cork nest, having a thick door beveled at the edges and fitting tight; the wafer nest, having a thin door. I am inclined to think, that so far as the Oamaru species are concerned, this distinction will not hold good, that is, on the supposition that the individuals forming a colony in any one placo are likely to be of the same species, for, notwithstanding that I had this distinction always in view, I never was able to detect any such marked differences in the thickness or fitting of the lids in different localities, or in different...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154094677
- ISBN 13 9781154094671
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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