The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 213
... connection as the main agent in intro- ducing the fauna , both groups must have been introduced at or about the same time , and why one set should have lost their wings and the other not , is quite inexplicable . Taking all these ...
... connection as the main agent in intro- ducing the fauna , both groups must have been introduced at or about the same time , and why one set should have lost their wings and the other not , is quite inexplicable . Taking all these ...
Page 402
... connection must have led to much more numerous and important cases of simi- larity of natural productions than we actually find . And if within the life of species such interchange may have taken place across seas of greater or less ...
... connection must have led to much more numerous and important cases of simi- larity of natural productions than we actually find . And if within the life of species such interchange may have taken place across seas of greater or less ...
Page 423
... connection with the Moluccas is shown by the presence of the genera Mimeta , Geoffroyus , Cacatua , Ptilopus , and Ianthanas , together with Megapodius and Cerchneis represented by Moluccan species . Turacona shows a connection with ...
... connection with the Moluccas is shown by the presence of the genera Mimeta , Geoffroyus , Cacatua , Ptilopus , and Ianthanas , together with Megapodius and Cerchneis represented by Moluccan species . Turacona shows a connection with ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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