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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... Mexico , the Antilles , and the northern parts of a tropical America , only one species extending south as. 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the ...
... Mexico , the Antilles , and the northern parts of a tropical America , only one species extending south as. 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the ...
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... Mexico . In birds , the northern groups rarely go further south than Mexico or the Columbian Andes ; and the only case of discontinuous distribution we can find recorded is that of the genus 38 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... Mexico . In birds , the northern groups rarely go further south than Mexico or the Columbian Andes ; and the only case of discontinuous distribution we can find recorded is that of the genus 38 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... Mexico it forms an extensive table - land , from 6,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea , with numerous volcanic peaks from 12,000 to 18,000 feet high ; but in Yucatan and Honduras , the country is less elevated , though still mountainous ...
... Mexico it forms an extensive table - land , from 6,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea , with numerous volcanic peaks from 12,000 to 18,000 feet high ; but in Yucatan and Honduras , the country is less elevated , though still mountainous ...
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... Mexico comprised much territory that belongs to the Nearctic region , and that many Nearctic groups extend along the high - lands to the capital city of Mexico itself , and even considerably further south , there is much difficulty in ...
... Mexico comprised much territory that belongs to the Nearctic region , and that many Nearctic groups extend along the high - lands to the capital city of Mexico itself , and even considerably further south , there is much difficulty in ...
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... Mexico and Guatemala ; and another genus , Claudius , has been lately described from Mexico . Amphibia . These are chiefly Batrachians ; Rhinophryna ( forming a peculiar family ) being confined to Mexico ; Triprion , a genus of Hylidæ ...
... Mexico and Guatemala ; and another genus , Claudius , has been lately described from Mexico . Amphibia . These are chiefly Batrachians ; Rhinophryna ( forming a peculiar family ) being confined to Mexico ; Triprion , a genus of Hylidæ ...
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