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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Page 22
... northern boundary of Brazil ; a tract in the interior of British Guiana ; and another on the northern bank of the Amazon near its mouth , and extending some little distance on its south bank at Santarem . On the northern bank of the ...
... northern boundary of Brazil ; a tract in the interior of British Guiana ; and another on the northern bank of the Amazon near its mouth , and extending some little distance on its south bank at Santarem . On the northern bank of the ...
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... northern portion of the continent west of the Orinooko has more character ; and there are indications that this has received many forms from Central and North America , and thus blended two faunas once more distinct than they are now ...
... northern portion of the continent west of the Orinooko has more character ; and there are indications that this has received many forms from Central and North America , and thus blended two faunas once more distinct than they are now ...
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... northern parts of 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his valuable paper in the Transactions of the Zoological Society not having been ...
... northern parts of 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his valuable paper in the Transactions of the Zoological Society not having been ...
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... . In birds , the northern groups rarely go further south than Mexico or the Columbian Andes ; and the only case of discontinuous distribution we can find recorded is that of the genus. 38 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... . In birds , the northern groups rarely go further south than Mexico or the Columbian Andes ; and the only case of discontinuous distribution we can find recorded is that of the genus. 38 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... northern forms , along the great mountain range to South Tem- perate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly ...
... northern forms , along the great mountain range to South Tem- perate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly ...
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