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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... GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro Maldive IS Andaman Is Ceylon Nicobar I Malay Penin . s Victoria Nyanza Kilima Njaro Tanganyika Seychelle Is ZanzibarL Chagos Is Loando REG ...
... GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro Maldive IS Andaman Is Ceylon Nicobar I Malay Penin . s Victoria Nyanza Kilima Njaro Tanganyika Seychelle Is ZanzibarL Chagos Is Loando REG ...
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... Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The Moluccas ( p . 417 ) —Insects- Peculiarities of the Moluccan Fauna ( p . 420 ) -Timor Group ( p . 422 ) — Celebes Group ( p . 426 ) —Origin of the Fauna of Celebes ( p . 436 ) - Australia and Tasmania , or ...
... Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The Moluccas ( p . 417 ) —Insects- Peculiarities of the Moluccan Fauna ( p . 420 ) -Timor Group ( p . 422 ) — Celebes Group ( p . 426 ) —Origin of the Fauna of Celebes ( p . 436 ) - Australia and Tasmania , or ...
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... Guinea with Characteristic Animals . 415 16. Plate XI . The Characteristic Mammalia of Tasmania 439 17. Plate XII . The Plains of New South Wales with Characteristic Ani- mals . 442 · 18. Plate XIII . Scene in New Zealand with some of ...
... Guinea with Characteristic Animals . 415 16. Plate XI . The Characteristic Mammalia of Tasmania 439 17. Plate XII . The Plains of New South Wales with Characteristic Ani- mals . 442 · 18. Plate XIII . Scene in New Zealand with some of ...
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... Guinea . 371 , 11 lines from foot , for and Borneo read Borneo and Philippines . 391 , 10 lines from foot , after Celebes add and the Papuan Islands . ,, 391 , 9 lines from foot , omit New Guinea or . 414 , 6 lines from foot , for ...
... Guinea . 371 , 11 lines from foot , for and Borneo read Borneo and Philippines . 391 , 10 lines from foot , after Celebes add and the Papuan Islands . ,, 391 , 9 lines from foot , omit New Guinea or . 414 , 6 lines from foot , for ...
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... guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are replaced by tapirs , prehensile- tailed monkeys , jaguars , curassows and toucans in the other . Again , parts of South Africa and Australia are wonderfully similar in their soil and climate ...
... guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are replaced by tapirs , prehensile- tailed monkeys , jaguars , curassows and toucans in the other . Again , parts of South Africa and Australia are wonderfully similar in their soil and climate ...
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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