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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... Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent of mountain slopes , of lofty ...
... Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent of mountain slopes , of lofty ...
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... wherever the forests are extensive . They extend along the Himalayas to beyond Simla , where a species has been observed at an altitude of 11,000 feet , playing among fir - trees laden with snow. CHAP . XVII . ] 171 MAMMALIA .
... wherever the forests are extensive . They extend along the Himalayas to beyond Simla , where a species has been observed at an altitude of 11,000 feet , playing among fir - trees laden with snow. CHAP . XVII . ] 171 MAMMALIA .
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... Himalayas they again occur in East Thibet ; a remarkable species with a large upturned nose ( S. roxellana ) having been discovered by Père David at Moupin ( about Lat . 32 ° N. ) in the highest forests , where the winters are severe ...
... Himalayas they again occur in East Thibet ; a remarkable species with a large upturned nose ( S. roxellana ) having been discovered by Père David at Moupin ( about Lat . 32 ° N. ) in the highest forests , where the winters are severe ...
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... Himalayas . The curious Gymnura ( 1 species ) is found in Borneo , Sumatra , and the Malay peninsula . Extinct Species . - The common hedgehog has been found fossil in several Post - tertiary deposits , while extinct species occur in ...
... Himalayas . The curious Gymnura ( 1 species ) is found in Borneo , Sumatra , and the Malay peninsula . Extinct Species . - The common hedgehog has been found fossil in several Post - tertiary deposits , while extinct species occur in ...
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... Himalayas as far as Assam , and even to Tenasserim , if there is no mistake about this locality ; while one species is found in Formosa , the northern part of which is almost as much Palearctic as Oriental . The genus Talpa ( 7 species ) ...
... Himalayas as far as Assam , and even to Tenasserim , if there is no mistake about this locality ; while one species is found in Formosa , the northern part of which is almost as much Palearctic as Oriental . The genus Talpa ( 7 species ) ...
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