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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... Islands of the West African Sub - region ( p . 265 ) -South African Sub - region ( p . 266 ) -Atlantic Islands of the Ethiopian Region ; -St . Helena ( p . 269 ) —Tristan d'Acunha ( p . 271 ) —Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands , or ...
... Islands of the West African Sub - region ( p . 265 ) -South African Sub - region ( p . 266 ) -Atlantic Islands of the Ethiopian Region ; -St . Helena ( p . 269 ) —Tristan d'Acunha ( p . 271 ) —Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands , or ...
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... Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) ...
... Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) ...
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... islands far away from land almost always have very peculiar animals found nowhere else ; as is strikingly the case in Madagascar and New Zealand , and to a less degree in the West India islands . But shallow straits , like the English ...
... islands far away from land almost always have very peculiar animals found nowhere else ; as is strikingly the case in Madagascar and New Zealand , and to a less degree in the West India islands . But shallow straits , like the English ...
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... islands are sometimes seen drifting a hundred miles from the mouth of the Ganges with living trees erect upon them ... islands after a hurricane , he met with floating masses of wood with trees growing upon them , so that they were at ...
... islands are sometimes seen drifting a hundred miles from the mouth of the Ganges with living trees erect upon them ... islands after a hurricane , he met with floating masses of wood with trees growing upon them , so that they were at ...
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... islands , which , for reasons already stated , it is not advisable to treat as a primary Zoological region . The ... Islands are extremely poor zoologically , this is not of great importance . Sub - divisions of the Australian Region ...
... islands , which , for reasons already stated , it is not advisable to treat as a primary Zoological region . The ... Islands are extremely poor zoologically , this is not of great importance . Sub - divisions of the Australian Region ...
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