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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... Plata BUENOS AYRES Bahia Blanco R.Negro R. Chupat 40 Bahia Above 20,000 feet . The Marine Contour of 1,000 feet مصر G.of Peñas , t is shewn by a dotted line 50 Pasture lands shewn thus Forest Desert The boundaries and reference numbers ...
... Plata BUENOS AYRES Bahia Blanco R.Negro R. Chupat 40 Bahia Above 20,000 feet . The Marine Contour of 1,000 feet مصر G.of Peñas , t is shewn by a dotted line 50 Pasture lands shewn thus Forest Desert The boundaries and reference numbers ...
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... Plata . Whether this sub - region should be continued across the Rio de la Plata into Uruguay and Entre - rios , is somewhat doubtful . To the west of the Parana it extends northward over the Chaco desert , till we approach the border ...
... Plata . Whether this sub - region should be continued across the Rio de la Plata into Uruguay and Entre - rios , is somewhat doubtful . To the west of the Parana it extends northward over the Chaco desert , till we approach the border ...
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... Plata and the highlands of Bolivia , and so belong to this sub - region . Otaria , one of the " eared seals " ( Otariida ) , is confined to the coasts of this sub- region and the antarctic islands . Deer of American groups ex- tend as ...
... Plata and the highlands of Bolivia , and so belong to this sub - region . Otaria , one of the " eared seals " ( Otariida ) , is confined to the coasts of this sub- region and the antarctic islands . Deer of American groups ex- tend as ...
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... Plata , and Bolivia ; Chionididæ ( 1 genus , 2 sp . ) the " sheath - bills , " found only at the southern extremity of the continent and in Kerguelen's Island , which with the other antarctic lands perhaps comes best here ; Thinocorida ...
... Plata , and Bolivia ; Chionididæ ( 1 genus , 2 sp . ) the " sheath - bills , " found only at the southern extremity of the continent and in Kerguelen's Island , which with the other antarctic lands perhaps comes best here ; Thinocorida ...
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... Plata , and Callorhinus to Patagonia , both belonging to the Colubrida . The Elapide do not extend into the tem- perate zone ; but Craspedocephalus , one of the Crotalidæ , occurs at Bahia Blanca in Patagonia ( Lat . 40 ° S. ) THE ...
... Plata , and Callorhinus to Patagonia , both belonging to the Colubrida . The Elapide do not extend into the tem- perate zone ; but Craspedocephalus , one of the Crotalidæ , occurs at Bahia Blanca in Patagonia ( Lat . 40 ° S. ) THE ...
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