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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... Europe ( p . 113 ) - Miocene Period ( p . 114 ) -Extinct Animals of Greece ( p . 115 ) -Miocene Fauna of Central and Western Europe ( p . 117 ) -Upper Miocene Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of ...
... Europe ( p . 113 ) - Miocene Period ( p . 114 ) -Extinct Animals of Greece ( p . 115 ) -Miocene Fauna of Central and Western Europe ( p . 117 ) -Upper Miocene Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of ...
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... Europe fresh warblers and unfamiliar buntings . We meet also with totally new forms ; as the glutton and the snowy owl in Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in Eastern Europe ...
... Europe fresh warblers and unfamiliar buntings . We meet also with totally new forms ; as the glutton and the snowy owl in Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in Eastern Europe ...
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... Europe . It is well ascertained that most of the birds that spend their spring and summer in the temperate parts of Europe pass the winter in North Africa and Western Asia . The winter visitants , on the other hand , pass the summer in ...
... Europe . It is well ascertained that most of the birds that spend their spring and summer in the temperate parts of Europe pass the winter in North Africa and Western Asia . The winter visitants , on the other hand , pass the summer in ...
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... Europe go southward to the Mediterranean , move along its coasts east or west , and cross over in three places only ; either from the south of Spain , in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar , from Sicily over Malta , or to the east by Greece ...
... Europe go southward to the Mediterranean , move along its coasts east or west , and cross over in three places only ; either from the south of Spain , in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar , from Sicily over Malta , or to the east by Greece ...
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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 sea ; and as they mostly travel at night and high in the air , their movements are difficult to observe , and are ...
... Europe ; but the power of flight in birds enables them to cross every kind of country , and even moderate widths of sea ; and as they mostly travel at night and high in the air , their movements are difficult to observe , and are ...
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