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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Page 173
... Celebes , Batchian , and the Philippine Islands ; but perhaps introduced by man into the latter islands and into Batchian . It is doubtful if there is more than one species . The tail of this animal is a fleshy tubercle , the nostrils ...
... Celebes , Batchian , and the Philippine Islands ; but perhaps introduced by man into the latter islands and into Batchian . It is doubtful if there is more than one species . The tail of this animal is a fleshy tubercle , the nostrils ...
Page 177
... Celebes , which would bring it into the Australian region ; but this island is altogether so anomalous that we can only consider its productions to have somewhat more affinity with the Australian than the Oriental region , but hardly to ...
... Celebes , which would bring it into the Australian region ; but this island is altogether so anomalous that we can only consider its productions to have somewhat more affinity with the Australian than the Oriental region , but hardly to ...
Page 215
... Celebes and Bouru , in the first Australian sub - region . Phacochoerus ( 2 species ) , ranges over tropical Africa from Abyssinia to Caffraria . Dr. J. E. Gray divides true swine ( Sus ) into 7 genera , but it seems far better to keep ...
... Celebes and Bouru , in the first Australian sub - region . Phacochoerus ( 2 species ) , ranges over tropical Africa from Abyssinia to Caffraria . Dr. J. E. Gray divides true swine ( Sus ) into 7 genera , but it seems far better to keep ...
Page 222
... Celebes , an island which is almost intermediate between the Oriental and Australian regions . In each of the Old World regions there are found a characteristic set of types . Antelopes prevail in the Ethiopian region ; sheep and goats ...
... Celebes , an island which is almost intermediate between the Oriental and Australian regions . In each of the Old World regions there are found a characteristic set of types . Antelopes prevail in the Ethiopian region ; sheep and goats ...
Page 229
... from the Pacific and Austro - Malayan Islands , except Celebes and Papua ; Lasiomys ( 1 sp . ) Guinea ; Acanthomys ( 5-6 sp . ) Africa , India and N. Australia ; Cricetomys ( 1 sp . ) Tropical CHAP . XVII . ] 229 MAMMALIA .
... from the Pacific and Austro - Malayan Islands , except Celebes and Papua ; Lasiomys ( 1 sp . ) Guinea ; Acanthomys ( 5-6 sp . ) Africa , India and N. Australia ; Cricetomys ( 1 sp . ) Tropical CHAP . XVII . ] 229 MAMMALIA .
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