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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... migration , but they are always on a small scale , and of limited extent ; the other movements are rather temporary incursions than true migrations . The annual movements of many fishes are more strictly analogous to the migration of ...
... migration , but they are always on a small scale , and of limited extent ; the other movements are rather temporary incursions than true migrations . The annual movements of many fishes are more strictly analogous to the migration of ...
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... migration ; the young birds stopping short of the extreme arctic regions , to which the old birds migrate.1 When old and young go together , however , the old birds take ... migration is governed by 20 [ PART 1 . DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
... migration ; the young birds stopping short of the extreme arctic regions , to which the old birds migrate.1 When old and young go together , however , the old birds take ... migration is governed by 20 [ PART 1 . DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
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... migration varies greatly , some species only going a few degrees north and south , while others migrate annually from the tropics to the extreme north of the continent ; and every gradation occurs between these extremes . Among those ...
... migration varies greatly , some species only going a few degrees north and south , while others migrate annually from the tropics to the extreme north of the continent ; and every gradation occurs between these extremes . Among those ...
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