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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... fact that many individual birds return year after year to build their nests in the same spot . This shows a strong local attachment , and is , in fact , the faculty or feeling on which their very existence probably depends . For were ...
... fact that many individual birds return year after year to build their nests in the same spot . This shows a strong local attachment , and is , in fact , the faculty or feeling on which their very existence probably depends . For were ...
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... fact that Denmark like Norway was then chiefly covered with pine forests is obtained by the discovery , that the Caper- cailzie was then abundant , a bird which feeds almost exclusively on the young shoots and seeds of pines and allied ...
... fact that Denmark like Norway was then chiefly covered with pine forests is obtained by the discovery , that the Caper- cailzie was then abundant , a bird which feeds almost exclusively on the young shoots and seeds of pines and allied ...
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... fact . In the other islands there are still vast tracts of forest in the hands of natives and utterly unexplored , and any similar absence in their case will prove little ; yet on making the same com- parison in the case of Borneo , the ...
... fact . In the other islands there are still vast tracts of forest in the hands of natives and utterly unexplored , and any similar absence in their case will prove little ; yet on making the same com- parison in the case of Borneo , the ...
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 hy¿nas 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