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 116
... Asia . Haploodon , or sewellels , consisting of two species , forms a distinct family ; and Erethizon is a peculiar form of tree porcupine ( Cercolabida ) . True mice and rats of the genus Mus are not indigenous to North America , their ...
... Asia . Haploodon , or sewellels , consisting of two species , forms a distinct family ; and Erethizon is a peculiar form of tree porcupine ( Cercolabida ) . True mice and rats of the genus Mus are not indigenous to North America , their ...
Page 119
... Asia . The following is a list of genera which have as much right to be considered typically Nearctic as Palæarctic : - 1. Regulus 2. Certhia 3. Sitta 4. Parus 5. Lophophanes 6. Lanius 7. Perisoreus 8. Pica 9. Corvus 10. Ampelis 11 ...
... Asia . The following is a list of genera which have as much right to be considered typically Nearctic as Palæarctic : - 1. Regulus 2. Certhia 3. Sitta 4. Parus 5. Lophophanes 6. Lanius 7. Perisoreus 8. Pica 9. Corvus 10. Ampelis 11 ...
Page 135
... Asia since the Post - pliocene epoch . Such purely Nearctic genera as Procyon , Latax , Erethizon , Jaculus , Fiber , Thomomys , and Hesperomys , abound , many of them ranging to the shores of Hudson's Bay and the barren wastes of ...
... Asia since the Post - pliocene epoch . Such purely Nearctic genera as Procyon , Latax , Erethizon , Jaculus , Fiber , Thomomys , and Hesperomys , abound , many of them ranging to the shores of Hudson's Bay and the barren wastes of ...
Page 137
... Asia , and the high probability that there was an actual land connection at , and south of , Behring's Straits , in late Tertiary times , it is somewhat remarkable that the admixture of Palearctic and Nearctic groups is not greater than ...
... Asia , and the high probability that there was an actual land connection at , and south of , Behring's Straits , in late Tertiary times , it is somewhat remarkable that the admixture of Palearctic and Nearctic groups is not greater than ...
Page 147
... Asia Palearctic 4 Mexico and Virginia to Canada 67. Spermophilus 15 N. , W. , & Central N. America 2 Rio Grande to Missouri ( Central ) 4 Virginia and Nebraska , northws . N. Palearctic 68. Cynomys 69. Arctomys HAPLOODONTIDE . 70 ...
... Asia Palearctic 4 Mexico and Virginia to Canada 67. Spermophilus 15 N. , W. , & Central N. America 2 Rio Grande to Missouri ( Central ) 4 Virginia and Nebraska , northws . N. Palearctic 68. Cynomys 69. Arctomys HAPLOODONTIDE . 70 ...
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