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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... 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 South ...
... 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 South ...
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... South America but Tropical North America and the Antilles , may be compared as to extent with the Ethiopian region ; but it is distinguished from all the other great zoological divisions of the globe , by the small pro- portion of its ...
... South America but Tropical North America and the Antilles , may be compared as to extent with the Ethiopian region ; but it is distinguished from all the other great zoological divisions of the globe , by the small pro- portion of its ...
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... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub ... South Temperate portion of the continent , together with the high plateaus ... tropical lowland dis- tricts . The rest of Tropical South America is so ...
... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub ... South Temperate portion of the continent , together with the high plateaus ... tropical lowland dis- tricts . The rest of Tropical South America is so ...
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... Tropical South America , therefore , is here considered to form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last sub - region in general zoological features . It possesses ...
... Tropical South America , therefore , is here considered to form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last sub - region in general zoological features . It possesses ...
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... Tropical South America . Sixteen of the families of snakes occur in the region , the Colubridæ , Amblycephalidæ , and Pythonidæ , being those which are best represented by peculiar forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic ...
... Tropical South America . Sixteen of the families of snakes occur in the region , the Colubridæ , Amblycephalidæ , and Pythonidæ , being those which are best represented by peculiar forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand