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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... neither do its vast forests and grassy plains support a single form of non - ruminant ungulate , except the tapir and the peccary . Birds . In birds , the Neotropical region is even CHAP . XIV . ] 5 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... neither do its vast forests and grassy plains support a single form of non - ruminant ungulate , except the tapir and the peccary . Birds . In birds , the Neotropical region is even CHAP . XIV . ] 5 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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... single family of birds , without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent , its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe , and the persistence through countless ages of all ...
... single family of birds , without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent , its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe , and the persistence through countless ages of all ...
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... single genus each , and only two of them ( Chirocolidæ and Cercosauridae ) have more than a single species . The families which range over both South and North America are Chirotidæ , Chalcidæ , Teide , and Iguanidæ ; the first and ...
... single genus each , and only two of them ( Chirocolidæ and Cercosauridae ) have more than a single species . The families which range over both South and North America are Chirotidæ , Chalcidæ , Teide , and Iguanidæ ; the first and ...
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... single genus , and only the second more than a single species ; so that it is not these which give a character to the South American Amphibia - fauna . The most important and best represented families are , Ranidæ ( true frogs ) , with ...
... single genus , and only the second more than a single species ; so that it is not these which give a character to the South American Amphibia - fauna . The most important and best represented families are , Ranidæ ( true frogs ) , with ...
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... single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java and one in the Moluccas . The relations of South America and Australia as indicated by these insects has already been ...
... single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java and one in the Moluccas . The relations of South America and Australia as indicated by these insects has already been ...
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