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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... allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to the Australian Lamprima . The other genera present no remarkable features ; but ...
... allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to the Australian Lamprima . The other genera present no remarkable features ; but ...
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... allied family , Oncidiadæ . Marine Shells . - We go out of our usual course to say a few words about the marine shells of this region , because their distribution on the two sides of the continent is important , as an indication of the ...
... allied family , Oncidiadæ . Marine Shells . - We go out of our usual course to say a few words about the marine shells of this region , because their distribution on the two sides of the continent is important , as an indication of the ...
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... allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the ...
... allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the ...
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... allied to South American forms . The only species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range in America and of migratory habits , which often visits the Bermudas 600 miles from North America , —and Asio ...
... allied to South American forms . The only species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range in America and of migratory habits , which often visits the Bermudas 600 miles from North America , —and Asio ...
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... allied to South American forms . The only species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range in America and of migratory habits , which often visits the Ber- mudas 600 miles from North America , -and Asio ...
... allied to South American forms . The only species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range in America and of migratory habits , which often visits the Ber- mudas 600 miles from North America , -and Asio ...
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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