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 12
... vegetation and of insect life , together with an unhealthy atmos- phere , no doubt often checks migration if it is attempted . Thus many animals are restricted to the slopes of the Himalayas 12 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
... vegetation and of insect life , together with an unhealthy atmos- phere , no doubt often checks migration if it is attempted . Thus many animals are restricted to the slopes of the Himalayas 12 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
Page 13
... Himalayas or to the mountains of Central India , the flat valley of the Ganges forming a limit to their range . In other cases , however , it is the river rather than the valley which is the barrier . In the great Amazonian plains many ...
... Himalayas or to the mountains of Central India , the flat valley of the Ganges forming a limit to their range . In other cases , however , it is the river rather than the valley which is the barrier . In the great Amazonian plains many ...
Page 18
... Himalayas in summer to a height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains to the lowlands in severe weather . In dry seasons great herds of antelopes move southwards towards ...
... Himalayas in summer to a height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains to the lowlands in severe weather . In dry seasons great herds of antelopes move southwards towards ...
Page 23
... Himalayas do not as a rule descend to the plains in winter , but merely come lower down the mountains ; and in southern India and Ceylon comparatively few of these migratory birds appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally ...
... Himalayas do not as a rule descend to the plains in winter , but merely come lower down the mountains ; and in southern India and Ceylon comparatively few of these migratory birds appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally ...
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... Himalayas , and includes the larger northern half of China , not quite so far down the coast as Amoy . It has been said that this region differs from the Oriental by negative characters only ; a host of tropical families and genera ...
... Himalayas , and includes the larger northern half of China , not quite so far down the coast as Amoy . It has been said that this region differs from the Oriental by negative characters only ; a host of tropical families and genera ...
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