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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... JAPAN Japan Isles SEA Niphon Nedo HIN A Loo Choo Is Amoy Formosa I. HongBong Hainan CHINA SEA Philippine Bonin Is L.Tehad 6 S Sierra E Leone GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro ...
... JAPAN Japan Isles SEA Niphon Nedo HIN A Loo Choo Is Amoy Formosa I. HongBong Hainan CHINA SEA Philippine Bonin Is L.Tehad 6 S Sierra E Leone GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro ...
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... Japan and North China , or the Manchurian Sub - region ( p . 220 ) -Birds ( p . 223 ) -Insects ( p . 227 ) -Remarks on the General Character of the Fauna of Japan ( p . 230 ) -General Conclusions as to the Fauna of the Palæ- arctic ...
... Japan and North China , or the Manchurian Sub - region ( p . 220 ) -Birds ( p . 223 ) -Insects ( p . 227 ) -Remarks on the General Character of the Fauna of Japan ( p . 230 ) -General Conclusions as to the Fauna of the Palæ- arctic ...
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... Japan ; while a few purely tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland as far as the valley of the Amoor . North America . - The migrations of birds in North America have been carefully studied by resident ...
... Japan ; while a few purely tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland as far as the valley of the Amoor . North America . - The migrations of birds in North America have been carefully studied by resident ...
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... Japan have a more Indian character than the birds , this being especially the case with the snakes . In the volume for 1868 of the same work , Professor Huxley discusses at considerable length the primary and secondary zoological ...
... Japan have a more Indian character than the birds , this being especially the case with the snakes . In the volume for 1868 of the same work , Professor Huxley discusses at considerable length the primary and secondary zoological ...
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... Japan ; and it is difficult to see on what principle the Madagascar group of islands is made of equal rank with this enormous region , seeing that its forms of life have marked African affinities . Neither does it seem advisable to ...
... Japan ; and it is difficult to see on what principle the Madagascar group of islands is made of equal rank with this enormous region , seeing that its forms of life have marked African affinities . Neither does it seem advisable to ...
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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