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 23
... east 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 ...
... east 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 ...
Page 37
... east coast to 37 ° S. latitude . Myopotamus ( 1 sp . ) , the coypu ( Echimyidae ) , ranges from 33 ° to 48 ° S. latitude on the west side of the Andes , and from the frontiers of Peru to 42 ° S. on the east side . Reithrodon and Acodon ...
... east coast to 37 ° S. latitude . Myopotamus ( 1 sp . ) , the coypu ( Echimyidae ) , ranges from 33 ° to 48 ° S. latitude on the west side of the Andes , and from the frontiers of Peru to 42 ° S. on the east side . Reithrodon and Acodon ...
Page 62
... east extremity of Portorico . The importance of the division here pointed out will be seen , when we state , that indigenous mammalia of pecu- liar genera are found on the western group of islands only ; and it is on these that all the ...
... east extremity of Portorico . The importance of the division here pointed out will be seen , when we state , that indigenous mammalia of pecu- liar genera are found on the western group of islands only ; and it is on these that all the ...
Page 102
... East and West Coasts to Canada Eastern United States All U. States to Canada Texas PIPRIDE 258. Piprites ... 4 Costa Rica to Brazil 259. Masius 2 Columbia and Ecuador 260. Chloropipo 1 Columbia 261. Xenopipo 1 Guiana and Columbia 262 ...
... East and West Coasts to Canada Eastern United States All U. States to Canada Texas PIPRIDE 258. Piprites ... 4 Costa Rica to Brazil 259. Masius 2 Columbia and Ecuador 260. Chloropipo 1 Columbia 261. Xenopipo 1 Guiana and Columbia 262 ...
Page 113
... east coast , equally comparable with the mountains of Brazil and Guiana . These mountains supply its great river ... east of the Rocky Mountains , is bare and arid , and often almost desert ; while the most favoured districts , -those ...
... east coast , equally comparable with the mountains of Brazil and Guiana . These mountains supply its great river ... east of the Rocky Mountains , is bare and arid , and often almost desert ; while the most favoured districts , -those ...
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