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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... India , Blyth's Catalogue , Bonaparte's Conspectus , and the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London down to 1865. Classicists now write Henicurus as the correct form ; but this seems to me one of those cases in which ...
... India , Blyth's Catalogue , Bonaparte's Conspectus , and the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London down to 1865. Classicists now write Henicurus as the correct form ; but this seems to me one of those cases in which ...
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... 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 Fauna of Europe ( p . 126 ) 107-128 • CHAPTER VII . EXTINCT ...
... 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 Fauna of Europe ( p . 126 ) 107-128 • CHAPTER VII . EXTINCT ...
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... India ( p . 224 ) -Sub - region of Ceylon and South India ( p . 326 ) —The Past History of Ceylon and South India , as indicated by its Fauna ( p . 328 ) -Himalayan or Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 329 ) —Islands of the Indo ...
... India ( p . 224 ) -Sub - region of Ceylon and South India ( p . 326 ) —The Past History of Ceylon and South India , as indicated by its Fauna ( p . 328 ) -Himalayan or Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 329 ) —Islands of the Indo ...
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... 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 species of monkeys , birds , and even ...
... 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 species of monkeys , birds , and even ...
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... India and Australia , or down to Chili and Brazil ; the species of the old and new worlds , however , being generally distinct . In striking contrast to these wide ranges we find many of the smaller perching birds , with some of the ...
... India and Australia , or down to Chili and Brazil ; the species of the old and new worlds , however , being generally distinct . In striking contrast to these wide ranges we find many of the smaller perching birds , with some of the ...
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