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 122
... larger than the living species , was found in the Siwalik Hills . Three species of deer ( Cervus ) have been found ... larger than a rhinoceros . It had a short trunk like a tapir , the lower horns on the forehead were simple , the upper ...
... larger than the living species , was found in the Siwalik Hills . Three species of deer ( Cervus ) have been found ... larger than a rhinoceros . It had a short trunk like a tapir , the lower horns on the forehead were simple , the upper ...
Page 337
... larger Malay islands and tropical America , but which once ranged over the greater part of temperate Europe . Birds - Owing to several of the families consisting of very obscure and closely allied species , which have never been criti ...
... larger Malay islands and tropical America , but which once ranged over the greater part of temperate Europe . Birds - Owing to several of the families consisting of very obscure and closely allied species , which have never been criti ...
Page 421
... larger than the varieties ( or species ) of Papua ; Papilio ulysses and deiphobus of Amboyna , usually larger than their allies in New Guinea ; Hestia idea , the largest species of the genus ; Diadema pandarus and Charaxes euryalus ...
... larger than the varieties ( or species ) of Papua ; Papilio ulysses and deiphobus of Amboyna , usually larger than their allies in New Guinea ; Hestia idea , the largest species of the genus ; Diadema pandarus and Charaxes euryalus ...
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