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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... western margin , the moisture - laden trade winds from the Atlantic have free access to the interior . A sufficient proportion of this moisture reaches the higher slopes of the Andes , where its condensation gives rise to innumerable ...
... western margin , the moisture - laden trade winds from the Atlantic have free access to the interior . A sufficient proportion of this moisture reaches the higher slopes of the Andes , where its condensation gives rise to innumerable ...
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... western slopes are moist and forest - clad , most of the genera are found on both sides . To the south of this line its western valleys are arid and its lower plains almost deserts ; and thus the absence of a number of groups to which ...
... western slopes are moist and forest - clad , most of the genera are found on both sides . To the south of this line its western valleys are arid and its lower plains almost deserts ; and thus the absence of a number of groups to which ...
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... western side of the Andes to about 100 miles south of Guayaquil . On the N.E. coast of Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the ...
... western side of the Andes to about 100 miles south of Guayaquil . On the N.E. coast of Brazil is a tract of open country , in some parts of which ( as near Ceara ) rain does not fall for years together ; but south of Cape St. Roque the ...
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... western Ecuador , has also a representative species found in several of the islands . 10. Zenaida , an American genus of pigeons , has a species in James Island and probably in some of the others , closely allied to a species from the ...
... western Ecuador , has also a representative species found in several of the islands . 10. Zenaida , an American genus of pigeons , has a species in James Island and probably in some of the others , closely allied to a species from the ...
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... western strip of arid country , which is mostly peopled by forms derived from Chili and the south temperate regions . " " Mammalia .-- This sub - region is well characterised by the pos- session of an entire family of mammalia having ...
... western strip of arid country , which is mostly peopled by forms derived from Chili and the south temperate regions . " " Mammalia .-- This sub - region is well characterised by the pos- session of an entire family of mammalia having ...
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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