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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... Guiana , 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 ...
... Guiana , 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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... Guiana , 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 ...
... Guiana , 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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... Guiana ( Opisthocomus ) is another isolated form , not only the type of a family , but perhaps of an extinct order of birds . Pass- ing on to the waders , we have a number of peculiar family types ,. all indicative of antiquity and ...
... Guiana ( Opisthocomus ) is another isolated form , not only the type of a family , but perhaps of an extinct order of birds . Pass- ing on to the waders , we have a number of peculiar family types ,. all indicative of antiquity and ...
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... Guiana , belongs to the Nandid¿ , a family of wide range in the tropics ; the Chromida , a family of exclusively fresh - water fishes found in the tropics of the Ethio- pian , Oriental and Neotropical regions , are here represented by ...
... Guiana , belongs to the Nandid¿ , a family of wide range in the tropics ; the Chromida , a family of exclusively fresh - water fishes found in the tropics of the Ethio- pian , Oriental and Neotropical regions , are here represented by ...
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... Guiana ; and another on the northern bank of the Amazon near its mouth , and extending some little distance on its south bank at Santarem . On the northern bank of the Orinooko are the Llanos , or flat open plains , partly flooded in ...
... Guiana ; and another on the northern bank of the Amazon near its mouth , and extending some little distance on its south bank at Santarem . On the northern bank of the Orinooko are the Llanos , or flat open plains , partly flooded in ...
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