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, 2. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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Page 10
... arctic Genera of Land Birds ( p . 118 ) -Summary of Nearctic Vertebrata ( p . 120 ) -Insects ( p . 122 ) -Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca ( p . 124 ) -The Califor- nian Sub - region ( p . 127 ) -The Rocky Mountain Sub - region ( p ...
... arctic Genera of Land Birds ( p . 118 ) -Summary of Nearctic Vertebrata ( p . 120 ) -Insects ( p . 122 ) -Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca ( p . 124 ) -The Califor- nian Sub - region ( p . 127 ) -The Rocky Mountain Sub - region ( p ...
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... Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now ...
... Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now ...
Page 83
... arctic and north temperate forms along the ridges and plateaus of the Andes ; and most likely occurred when these organisms were driven southward at successive cold or Glacial periods . A curious parallel exists between the past history ...
... arctic and north temperate forms along the ridges and plateaus of the Andes ; and most likely occurred when these organisms were driven southward at successive cold or Glacial periods . A curious parallel exists between the past history ...
Page 100
... Arctic genus Nearc . & Palaearc . genus 2 Brazil to Costa Rica 12538I7 Columbia to Bolivia and Brazil Brazil and Guiana Ecuador , Peru , and Chili Columbia to Ecuador , Patagonia 8 S. Brazil and Bolivia to Patago . Columbian Andes 17 ...
... Arctic genus Nearc . & Palaearc . genus 2 Brazil to Costa Rica 12538I7 Columbia to Bolivia and Brazil Brazil and Guiana Ecuador , Peru , and Chili Columbia to Ecuador , Patagonia 8 S. Brazil and Bolivia to Patago . Columbian Andes 17 ...
Page 113
... arctic and tropical ; extensive forests and vast prairies ; a greatly varied surface and a rich and beautiful flora . But these great advantages are somewhat neutralized by other physical features . It extends far towards the north ...
... arctic and tropical ; extensive forests and vast prairies ; a greatly varied surface and a rich and beautiful flora . But these great advantages are somewhat neutralized by other physical features . It extends far towards the north ...
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