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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... genus Hatera and its allies , whose transparent wings are delicately marked with patches of orange , pink , or violet . The genus Morpho is perhaps the grandest development of the butterfly type , being of immense size and adorned with ...
... genus Hatera and its allies , whose transparent wings are delicately marked with patches of orange , pink , or violet . The genus Morpho is perhaps the grandest development of the butterfly type , being of immense size and adorned with ...
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... genus , has species in Australia and a few in North America and Europe . The small genus Peridexia is divided between Brazil and Mada- gascar , a somewhat similar distribution to that of Urania noticed above . One genus , Agrius , is ...
... genus , has species in Australia and a few in North America and Europe . The small genus Peridexia is divided between Brazil and Mada- gascar , a somewhat similar distribution to that of Urania noticed above . One genus , Agrius , is ...
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... genus Tapirus ( a distinct genus being found north of Panama ) ; 4 genera of Muridae ; Ctenomys , a genus of Octodontidae ; the whole family of Echimyid¿ , or spiny rats , ( as far as the American continent is concerned ) consisting of ...
... genus Tapirus ( a distinct genus being found north of Panama ) ; 4 genera of Muridae ; Ctenomys , a genus of Octodontidae ; the whole family of Echimyid¿ , or spiny rats , ( as far as the American continent is concerned ) consisting of ...
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... genus Mus not being indigenous to the American continent ) , it is not improbable , as Mr. Darwin remarks , that the ... genus of the wood - warblers ( Mniotiltide ) , is represented by one species , which ranges over the greater part of ...
... genus Mus not being indigenous to the American continent ) , it is not improbable , as Mr. Darwin remarks , that the ... genus of the wood - warblers ( Mniotiltide ) , is represented by one species , which ranges over the greater part of ...
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... genus originally classed among the finches , but which Mr. Sclater , who has made South American birds his special study , considers to belong to the Corebido , or sugar - birds , a family which is wholly tropical . Two species of this ...
... genus originally classed among the finches , but which Mr. Sclater , who has made South American birds his special study , considers to belong to the Corebido , or sugar - birds , a family which is wholly tropical . Two species of this ...
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