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. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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... Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise ...
... Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise ...
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... Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of ... Brazil ( long . 42 ° W. ) to Zamora , in the province of Loja ( lat . 4 ° S. , long . 79 ° W. ) , high up in the ...
... Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of ... Brazil ( long . 42 ° W. ) to Zamora , in the province of Loja ( lat . 4 ° S. , long . 79 ° W. ) , high up in the ...
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... Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the coast - forests of Brazil commence , extending to lat . 30 ° S. , clothing all the ...
... Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the coast - forests of Brazil commence , extending to lat . 30 ° S. , clothing all the ...
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... Brazil ; and Callithrix to tropical South America . All the marmosets ( Hapalida ) are also confined to this sub - region , one only being found at Panama , and perhaps extending a little beyond it . Among other peculiar forms , are 8 ...
... Brazil ; and Callithrix to tropical South America . All the marmosets ( Hapalida ) are also confined to this sub - region , one only being found at Panama , and perhaps extending a little beyond it . Among other peculiar forms , are 8 ...
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... Brazil has Ptilochloris , Casiornis , Tijuca , Phibalura , and Calyptura ; while not a single genus of this family , except perhaps Heliochora , is confined to the extensive range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented ...
... Brazil has Ptilochloris , Casiornis , Tijuca , Phibalura , and Calyptura ; while not a single genus of this family , except perhaps Heliochora , is confined to the extensive range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented ...
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