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 267
... remarkable form of jerboa ; and Petromys , one of the spiny - rats ( Echimyidae ) . The remarkable Orycteropus , or earth - pig , has one species in South and one in North East Africa . We have thus eighteen genera of mammalia almost or ...
... remarkable form of jerboa ; and Petromys , one of the spiny - rats ( Echimyidae ) . The remarkable Orycteropus , or earth - pig , has one species in South and one in North East Africa . We have thus eighteen genera of mammalia almost or ...
Page 272
... remarkable zoo- logical districts on the globe , bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical America , or New Zealand to Australia , but possessing a much richer fauna than either of these , and in some respects a ...
... remarkable zoo- logical districts on the globe , bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical America , or New Zealand to Australia , but possessing a much richer fauna than either of these , and in some respects a ...
Page 414
... remarkable forms are Peltops , a fly- catcher , long classed as one of the Indo - Malayan Eurylamidæ , which it resembles both in bill and coloration ; Macharirhynchus , curious little boat - billed flycatchers ; and Todopsis , a group ...
... remarkable forms are Peltops , a fly- catcher , long classed as one of the Indo - Malayan Eurylamidæ , which it resembles both in bill and coloration ; Macharirhynchus , curious little boat - billed flycatchers ; and Todopsis , a group ...
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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