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 15
... Mexico and Guatemala from the north , which never reach South America ; so that it is convenient to separate this district as a sub - region , which forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General Zoological ...
... Mexico and Guatemala from the north , which never reach South America ; so that it is convenient to separate this district as a sub - region , which forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General Zoological ...
Page 43
... Guatemala , and Eteona , common to Chili and Brazil ( Satyrida ) ; Apodemia ( Lemoniidae ) confined to Tropical ... Mexico and Australia ; Cupido , widely spread in the tropics ; Euryades , found only in La Plata and Paraguay , allied to ...
... Guatemala , and Eteona , common to Chili and Brazil ( Satyrida ) ; Apodemia ( Lemoniidae ) confined to Tropical ... Mexico and Australia ; Cupido , widely spread in the tropics ; Euryades , found only in La Plata and Paraguay , allied to ...
Page 51
... Mexican Sub - region . This sub - region is of comparatively small extent ... Mexico it forms an extensive table - land , from 6,000 to 9,000 feet above ... Guatemala , and the extremity of the peninsula of Yucatan , the whole of ...
... Mexican Sub - region . This sub - region is of comparatively small extent ... Mexico it forms an extensive table - land , from 6,000 to 9,000 feet above ... Guatemala , and the extremity of the peninsula of Yucatan , the whole of ...
Page 52
... Mexico comprised much territory that belongs to the Nearctic region , and that many Nearctic groups extend along the ... Guatemala , and , with Myxomys , a genus of Murid¿ , are all at present discovered . Bassaris , a remarkable form of ...
... Mexico comprised much territory that belongs to the Nearctic region , and that many Nearctic groups extend along the ... Guatemala , and , with Myxomys , a genus of Murid¿ , are all at present discovered . Bassaris , a remarkable form of ...
Page 53
... Guatemala , or the portion of Central America between Mexico and Honduras . The great mass of the birds of this sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate ...
... Guatemala , or the portion of Central America between Mexico and Honduras . The great mass of the birds of this sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand