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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... divisions of the earth as regards its forms of animal life . The divisions in use till quite recently were of two kinds ; either those ready made by geographers , more especially the quarters or continents of the globe ; or those ...
... divisions of the earth as regards its forms of animal life . The divisions in use till quite recently were of two kinds ; either those ready made by geographers , more especially the quarters or continents of the globe ; or those ...
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... divisions are of equal importance . The next great natural division that can be made is the separation of the Neotropical Region of Mr. Sclater from the rest of the world . We thus have three primary divisions , which Professor Huxley ...
... divisions are of equal importance . The next great natural division that can be made is the separation of the Neotropical Region of Mr. Sclater from the rest of the world . We thus have three primary divisions , which Professor Huxley ...
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... divisions of the regions no advantage is gained by the use of a distinct term- " pro- vince " -- which has been used ( by Swainson ) for the primary divisions , and which does not itself tell you what rank it holds ; whereas the term ...
... divisions of the regions no advantage is gained by the use of a distinct term- " pro- vince " -- which has been used ( by Swainson ) for the primary divisions , and which does not itself tell you what rank it holds ; whereas the term ...
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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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros snakes South America southern sub-region Sumatra tapir Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions