"Chinchona" Quotes from Famous Books
... nest of this Tit here on the 14th May in the Chinchona reserves (Sikhim), at an elevation of about 4500 feet. It was in partially cleared country, in a natural hole of a stump, about 5 feet from the ground. The nest was made of moss and lined with soft matted hair; but I pulled it out of the hole carelessly and cannot say whether it had originally ... — The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume
... The chinchona (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which also includes ipecacuanhas ... — The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston |