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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... Jamaica Bermudas 60 50 40 ANTILLEAN Caicos Is . Haiti Samigna IS Porto s ingston Chiriqui L. Vaghagres G.of Panama Galapagos Albemarle Charles Is . Chatham Chimborazo G.of ansa Guaviari S SBartholomew Antigua Guadaloupe Dominica ...
... Jamaica Bermudas 60 50 40 ANTILLEAN Caicos Is . Haiti Samigna IS Porto s ingston Chiriqui L. Vaghagres G.of Panama Galapagos Albemarle Charles Is . Chatham Chimborazo G.of ansa Guaviari S SBartholomew Antigua Guadaloupe Dominica ...
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... Jamaica and Portorico ; and a chain of much smaller islands , St. Croix , Anguilla , Barbuda , Antigua , Guadeloupe , Dominica , Martinique , St. Lucia , St. Vincent , Barbadoes , and Grenada , with a host of intervening islets . Tobago ...
... Jamaica and Portorico ; and a chain of much smaller islands , St. Croix , Anguilla , Barbuda , Antigua , Guadeloupe , Dominica , Martinique , St. Lucia , St. Vincent , Barbadoes , and Grenada , with a host of intervening islets . Tobago ...
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... Jamaica , the depth between them being 600 fathoms . Between Portorico and Hayti there is only 250 fathoms ; while close to the south of all these islands the sea is enormously deep , from more than 1,000 fathoms south of Cuba and Jamaica ...
... Jamaica , the depth between them being 600 fathoms . Between Portorico and Hayti there is only 250 fathoms ; while close to the south of all these islands the sea is enormously deep , from more than 1,000 fathoms south of Cuba and Jamaica ...
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... Jamaica . The Insectivora are represented by the genus Solenodon , of which two species are known , one inhabiting Cuba the other Hayti . These are small animals about the size of a cat , with long shrew - like snout , bare rat - like ...
... Jamaica . The Insectivora are represented by the genus Solenodon , of which two species are known , one inhabiting Cuba the other Hayti . These are small animals about the size of a cat , with long shrew - like snout , bare rat - like ...
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... Jamaica only ; 2 of owls , one peculiar to Jamaica , the other represented in St. Croix , St. Thomas , Portorico , and Cuba ; and lastly , Todus , constituting a peculiar family , and having repre- sentative species in each of the ...
... Jamaica only ; 2 of owls , one peculiar to Jamaica , the other represented in St. Croix , St. Thomas , Portorico , and Cuba ; and lastly , Todus , constituting a peculiar family , and having repre- sentative species in each of the ...
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