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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Page xxi
... AUSTRALIAN REGION . General Zoological Characteristics of the Australian Region ( p . 390 ) —Summary of the Australian Vertebrata ( p . 397 ) -Supposed Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) ...
... AUSTRALIAN REGION . General Zoological Characteristics of the Australian Region ( p . 390 ) —Summary of the Australian Vertebrata ( p . 397 ) -Supposed Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) ...
Page 59
... Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia and the Pacific Islands . 5. The Nearctic Region ; including Greenland , and N. America , to Northern Mexico . 6. The Neotropical Region ; including South America ...
... Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia and the Pacific Islands . 5. The Nearctic Region ; including Greenland , and N. America , to Northern Mexico . 6. The Neotropical Region ; including South America ...
Page 61
... Australian region , and one com- prising the southern part of Australia and New Zealand . The other realms each form a single region . Discussion of proposed Regions . — Before proceeding to define the regions adopted in this work , it ...
... Australian region , and one com- prising the southern part of Australia and New Zealand . The other realms each form a single region . Discussion of proposed Regions . — Before proceeding to define the regions adopted in this work , it ...
Page 62
... Australia or in New Guinea , and that Apterygidae or Palapterygidæ should be found to have inhabited Australia in Post - Pliocene times , ( as Dinornithidae have already been proved to have done ) the claims of New Zealand would ...
... Australia or in New Guinea , and that Apterygidae or Palapterygidæ should be found to have inhabited Australia in Post - Pliocene times , ( as Dinornithidae have already been proved to have done ) the claims of New Zealand would ...
Page 64
... Australian re- gion from the rest ; but although it is something useful and definite to know that a group of animals is peculiar to Australia , it is exceedingly vague and unsatisfactory to say of any other group merely that it is extra ...
... Australian re- gion from the rest ; but although it is something useful and definite to know that a group of animals is peculiar to Australia , it is exceedingly vague and unsatisfactory to say of any other group merely that it is extra ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions