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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... arctic Genera of Land Birds ( p 118 ) -Summary of Nearctic Vertebrata ( p . 120 ) -Insects ( p . 122 ) -Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca ( p . 124 ) -The Califor- nian Sub - region ( p . 127 ) -The Rocky Mountain Sub - region ( p ...
... arctic Genera of Land Birds ( p 118 ) -Summary of Nearctic Vertebrata ( p . 120 ) -Insects ( p . 122 ) -Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca ( p . 124 ) -The Califor- nian Sub - region ( p . 127 ) -The Rocky Mountain Sub - region ( p ...
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... arctic form , yet having a few species in South Africa ; Argyrophorus , allied to Eneis , a northern genus ; Hipparchia , a northern genus yet having a species in Brazil ; -all Satyrida . The Nymphalidæ are represented by the typical ...
... arctic form , yet having a few species in South Africa ; Argyrophorus , allied to Eneis , a northern genus ; Hipparchia , a northern genus yet having a species in Brazil ; -all Satyrida . The Nymphalidæ are represented by the typical ...
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... Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now ...
... Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now ...
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... arctic and north temperate forms along the ridges and plateaus of the Andes ; and most likely occurred when these organisms were driven southward at successive cold or Glacial periods . A curious parallel exists between the past history ...
... arctic and north temperate forms along the ridges and plateaus of the Andes ; and most likely occurred when these organisms were driven southward at successive cold or Glacial periods . A curious parallel exists between the past history ...
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... Arctic genus Nearc . & Palæarc . genus 4 Mexico to Patagonia and Falk- Cosmopolite land Islands 187a . Oxyrhamphus 2 Brazil to Costa Rica TYRANNIDE . 188. Conophaga 11 Columbia to Bolivia and Brazil 189. Corythopis 2 Brazil and Guiana ...
... Arctic genus Nearc . & Palæarc . genus 4 Mexico to Patagonia and Falk- Cosmopolite land Islands 187a . Oxyrhamphus 2 Brazil to Costa Rica TYRANNIDE . 188. Conophaga 11 Columbia to Bolivia and Brazil 189. Corythopis 2 Brazil and Guiana ...
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