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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... Brazil , a bird somewhat intermediate between a bustard and a hawk , is one of these ; the elegant Psophia or trumpeter of the Amazonian forests ; the beautiful little sun - bittern of the river banks ( Eurypyga ) ; and the horned ...
... Brazil , a bird somewhat intermediate between a bustard and a hawk , is one of these ; the elegant Psophia or trumpeter of the Amazonian forests ; the beautiful little sun - bittern of the river banks ( Eurypyga ) ; and the horned ...
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... Brazil and Mada- gascar , a somewhat similar distribution to that of Urania noticed above . One genus , Agrius , is confined to the southern extremity of the continent . Carabidæ . Besides a considerable number of cosmopolitan or wide ...
... Brazil and Mada- gascar , a somewhat similar distribution to that of Urania noticed above . One genus , Agrius , is confined to the southern extremity of the continent . Carabidæ . Besides a considerable number of cosmopolitan or wide ...
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... Brazil ; Ptosima has one species in south tempe- rate America , the rest widely scattered from North America to the Philippines ; Actenodes has a single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in ...
... Brazil ; Ptosima has one species in south tempe- rate America , the rest widely scattered from North America to the Philippines ; Actenodes has a single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in ...
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... Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of ... Brazil ( long . 42 ° W. ) to Zamora , in the province of Loja ( lat . 4 ° S. , long . 79 ° W. ) , high up in the ...
... Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of ... Brazil ( long . 42 ° W. ) to Zamora , in the province of Loja ( lat . 4 ° S. , long . 79 ° W. ) , high up in the ...
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... Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the coast - forests of Brazil commence , extending to lat . 30 ° S. , clothing all the ...
... Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the coast - forests of Brazil commence , extending to lat . 30 ° S. , clothing all the ...
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