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. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) -Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) -Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) -Islands of ...
... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) -Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) -Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) -Islands of ...
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... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
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... Islands . The most recent estimates show that the Antilles contain more species of land shells than all the rest of the region , and almost exactly as many as all continental America , north and south . Mr. Thomas Bland , who has long ...
... Islands . The most recent estimates show that the Antilles contain more species of land shells than all the rest of the region , and almost exactly as many as all continental America , north and south . Mr. Thomas Bland , who has long ...
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... islands as Trinidad and Sta . Catherina form parts of South America , and have no peculiar groups of animals . The small islands of Fernando Noronha , Trinidad , and Martin Vaz , off the coast of Brazil , are the only Atlantic islands ...
... islands as Trinidad and Sta . Catherina form parts of South America , and have no peculiar groups of animals . The small islands of Fernando Noronha , Trinidad , and Martin Vaz , off the coast of Brazil , are the only Atlantic islands ...
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... islands have increased the number of land - birds to thirty - two , and of wading and aquatic birds to twenty - three . All the land birds but two or three are peculiar to the islands , and eighteen , or considerably more than half ...
... islands have increased the number of land - birds to thirty - two , and of wading and aquatic birds to twenty - three . All the land birds but two or three are peculiar to the islands , and eighteen , or considerably more than half ...
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