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 - 503 pages |
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Page xviii
... Central and Western Europe ( p . 117 ) -Upper Miocene Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of Europe and Asia ( p . 123 ) -Eocene Period ( p . 124 ) -- General Considerations on the Extinct Mammalian ...
... Central and Western Europe ( p . 117 ) -Upper Miocene Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of Europe and Asia ( p . 123 ) -Eocene Period ( p . 124 ) -- General Considerations on the Extinct Mammalian ...
Page xx
... Central and Northern Europe ( p . 191 ) -North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan ...
... Central and Northern Europe ( p . 191 ) -North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan ...
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... Central Europe with Characteristic Animals 195 4. Plate II . Characteristic Mammalia of Western Tartary 218 5. Plate III . Characteristic Animals of North China 226 • 6. Map of the Ethiopian Region 251 • 7 . Plate IV . Characteristic ...
... Central Europe with Characteristic Animals 195 4. Plate II . Characteristic Mammalia of Western Tartary 218 5. Plate III . Characteristic Animals of North China 226 • 6. Map of the Ethiopian Region 251 • 7 . Plate IV . Characteristic ...
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... Europe ; but the power of flight in birds enables them to cross every kind of country , and even moderate widths of ... Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern Russia and the wariner parts of Siberia , but it ...
... Europe ; but the power of flight in birds enables them to cross every kind of country , and even moderate widths of ... Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern Russia and the wariner parts of Siberia , but it ...
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... . One great body reaches central Europe by way of the Danube from the shores of the Black Sea ; another ascends the Rhone Valley from the Gulf of Lyons . India and China . - In the peninsula of India 22 22 [ PART L DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
... . One great body reaches central Europe by way of the Danube from the shores of the Black Sea ; another ascends the Rhone Valley from the Gulf of Lyons . India and China . - In the peninsula of India 22 22 [ PART L DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
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