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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... developed into a prehen- sile organ of wonderful power , adapting the animals to a purely arboreal life . Four of the genera , comprising more than half the species , have the prehensile tail , the remainder having. 6 [ PART III ...
... developed into a prehen- sile organ of wonderful power , adapting the animals to a purely arboreal life . Four of the genera , comprising more than half the species , have the prehensile tail , the remainder having. 6 [ PART III ...
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... developed than the great mass of Old World passeres ) are exclusively American , the three belonging to the Eastern ... develop those beautiful and highly specialized forms out of some ancestral swift - like. 8 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL ...
... developed than the great mass of Old World passeres ) are exclusively American , the three belonging to the Eastern ... develop those beautiful and highly specialized forms out of some ancestral swift - like. 8 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL ...
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... nothing elsewhere on the globe at all resembles them . In Lycænidæ the world- wide genus Thecla is wonderfully developed , and the South American species not only surpass all others in size and. 14 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... nothing elsewhere on the globe at all resembles them . In Lycænidæ the world- wide genus Thecla is wonderfully developed , and the South American species not only surpass all others in size and. 14 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... developed here , the species being excessively nu- merous , while some of them redeem the character of this generally sober family , by their rich and elegant coloration . In the only other group of Lepidoptera we can here notice , the ...
... developed here , the species being excessively nu- merous , while some of them redeem the character of this generally sober family , by their rich and elegant coloration . In the only other group of Lepidoptera we can here notice , the ...
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... are , Inca ( 7 sp . ) , remarkable for their large size , and being the only American group in which horns are developed on the head ; and Trigonopeltastes ( 6 sp . ) , allied to. 16 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... are , Inca ( 7 sp . ) , remarkable for their large size , and being the only American group in which horns are developed on the head ; and Trigonopeltastes ( 6 sp . ) , allied to. 16 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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