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 16
... Chili . These are large insects of metallic green colours , and armed with enormous serrated mandibles . The allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting ...
... Chili . These are large insects of metallic green colours , and armed with enormous serrated mandibles . The allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting ...
Page 17
... Chili and Australia ; the Australian genus Stigmodera has a species in Chili ; Polycesta has a species in Madagascar , two in the Mediterranean region , and a few in North America ; Acherusia is divided between Australia and Brazil ...
... Chili and Australia ; the Australian genus Stigmodera has a species in Chili ; Polycesta has a species in Madagascar , two in the Mediterranean region , and a few in North America ; Acherusia is divided between Australia and Brazil ...
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... Chili a little further south , or to peculiar genera 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 ...
... Chili a little further south , or to peculiar genera 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 ...
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... Chili . 3. Certhidea , a peculiar genus originally classed among the finches , but which Mr. Sclater , who has made South American birds his special study , considers to belong to the Corebido , or sugar - birds , a family which is ...
... Chili . 3. Certhidea , a peculiar genus originally classed among the finches , but which Mr. Sclater , who has made South American birds his special study , considers to belong to the Corebido , or sugar - birds , a family which is ...
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... Chili and Peru as far as 9 ° south latitude , and at from 8,000 to 12,000 feet altitude ; Lagidium ( 3 sp . ) , ranging over the Andes of Chili , Peru , and South Ecuador , from 11,000 to 16,000 feet altitude ; and Lagostomus (. 36 ...
... Chili and Peru as far as 9 ° south latitude , and at from 8,000 to 12,000 feet altitude ; Lagidium ( 3 sp . ) , ranging over the Andes of Chili , Peru , and South Ecuador , from 11,000 to 16,000 feet altitude ; and Lagostomus (. 36 ...
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