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, 1. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
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... African Sub - region , or Central and East Africa ( p . 258 ) -The West African Sub - region ( p . 262 ) -Islands of the West African Sub - region ( p . 265 ) -South African Sub - region ( p . 266 ) -Atlantic Islands of the Ethiopian ...
... African Sub - region , or Central and East Africa ( p . 258 ) -The West African Sub - region ( p . 262 ) -Islands of the West African Sub - region ( p . 265 ) -South African Sub - region ( p . 266 ) -Atlantic Islands of the Ethiopian ...
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... Africa 261 8 . Plate V. Scene in West Africa with Characteristic Animals 264 9. Plate VI . Scene in Madagascar with Characteristic Animals 10. Map of the Oriental Region . 278 315 · 11 . Plate VII . Scene in Nepaul with Characteristic ...
... Africa 261 8 . Plate V. Scene in West Africa with Characteristic Animals 264 9. Plate VI . Scene in Madagascar with Characteristic Animals 10. Map of the Oriental Region . 278 315 · 11 . Plate VII . Scene in Nepaul with Characteristic ...
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... Africa and South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their animal life is widely different ; elephants , apes , leopards , guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are ...
... Africa and South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their animal life is widely different ; elephants , apes , leopards , guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are ...
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... Africa , as is proved by the fossil elephants and other large mammalia found in their caverns , by the comparatively shallow water still existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by ...
... Africa , as is proved by the fossil elephants and other large mammalia found in their caverns , by the comparatively shallow water still existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by ...
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... Africa . The Isthmus of Panama is a more effectual line of union , since it is hilly , well watered , and covered with luxuriant vegetation ; and we accordingly find that the main features of South American zoology are continued into ...
... Africa . The Isthmus of Panama is a more effectual line of union , since it is hilly , well watered , and covered with luxuriant vegetation ; and we accordingly find that the main features of South American zoology are continued into ...
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