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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... probably terminate in the midst of luxuriant vegetation , just as the glaciers of Switzerland now often termi- nate amid forests and corn - fields ) , and as the cold decreased and the ice retired almost imperceptibly year by year ...
... probably terminate in the midst of luxuriant vegetation , just as the glaciers of Switzerland now often termi- nate amid forests and corn - fields ) , and as the cold decreased and the ice retired almost imperceptibly year by year ...
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... probably due to three distinct causes . First , we have the American Didelphyidæ , among Mammals , and the Cracidæ , among birds , allied respectively to the Marsu- pials and the Megapodiida of Australia . This is probably more a ...
... probably due to three distinct causes . First , we have the American Didelphyidæ , among Mammals , and the Cracidæ , among birds , allied respectively to the Marsu- pials and the Megapodiida of Australia . This is probably more a ...
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... probably introduced from Celebes , where the same ape occurs . 2. Viverra tangalunga , a common Indo - Malayan species of civet , probably introduced . 3. Cervus hippelaphus , var . Moluccensis , a deer abundant in all the islands ...
... probably introduced from Celebes , where the same ape occurs . 2. Viverra tangalunga , a common Indo - Malayan species of civet , probably introduced . 3. Cervus hippelaphus , var . Moluccensis , a deer abundant in all the islands ...
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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