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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... Mountain Sub - region ( p . 129 ) -The Alleghany Sub - region ( p . 131 ) -The Bermudas ( p . 134 ) —The Canadian Sub- region ( p . 135 ) -Greenland ( p . 138 ) -Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Nearctic Region ( p . 140 ) ...
... Mountain Sub - region ( p . 129 ) -The Alleghany Sub - region ( p . 131 ) -The Bermudas ( p . 134 ) —The Canadian Sub- region ( p . 135 ) -Greenland ( p . 138 ) -Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Nearctic Region ( p . 140 ) ...
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... mountain range , rivalling the Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent ...
... mountain range , rivalling the Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent ...
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... mountain barrier . All Tropical South America , therefore , is here considered to form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last sub - region in general zoological ...
... mountain barrier . All Tropical South America , therefore , is here considered to form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last sub - region in general zoological ...
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... mountain ranges , and even penetrating up the great valleys far into the interior . To the south - west the forest country re- appears in Paraguay , and extends in patches and partially wooded country , till it almost reaches the ...
... mountain ranges , and even penetrating up the great valleys far into the interior . To the south - west the forest country re- appears in Paraguay , and extends in patches and partially wooded country , till it almost reaches the ...
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... illustra- tion represents a mountainous forest in Brazil , the part of South America where the Neotropical Mammalia are perhaps best developed . The central and most conspicuous figure is the CHAP . XIV . ] 233 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... illustra- tion represents a mountainous forest in Brazil , the part of South America where the Neotropical Mammalia are perhaps best developed . The central and most conspicuous figure is the CHAP . XIV . ] 233 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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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