taken ing positions so as to baffle their pursuers. upon one of those open plains which have been cleared by This mimicry is carried to a wonderful degree of perfec-| fire, the only shelter in sight being the blackened trunks or tion in India, That strange country, as Dr. Latham says, | leafless… … ee scorched trees suddenly became meta- alive, and their parasites are so exceed. morphosed into men, and the whole ingly numerous and constant in their THE COMMON HORNBILL. party dispersed in different directions occurrence, that once the fact becomes before the Englishmen could recover…
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