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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... Java L. Comoro Is Keeling Is Nyassa GUIANA RU B R Amazon R REOTROPICAL S.Paul Rocas FNoronhal . Pernambuco Ascension Z I L RSFra Bahia L.Titicaca BOLIVIA Andes REGION Rio Janeiro Coquimbo Valparaiso Juan Fernandez I. Valdivia Chiloel ...
... Java L. Comoro Is Keeling Is Nyassa GUIANA RU B R Amazon R REOTROPICAL S.Paul Rocas FNoronhal . Pernambuco Ascension Z I L RSFra Bahia L.Titicaca BOLIVIA Andes REGION Rio Janeiro Coquimbo Valparaiso Juan Fernandez I. Valdivia Chiloel ...
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... Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding Remarks on the Oriental Region ...
... Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding Remarks on the Oriental Region ...
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... Java . 4. The Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia and the Pacific Islands . 5. The Nearctic Region ; including Greenland , and N. America , to Northern Mexico . 6. The Neotropical Region ; including ...
... Java . 4. The Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia and the Pacific Islands . 5. The Nearctic Region ; including Greenland , and N. America , to Northern Mexico . 6. The Neotropical Region ; including ...
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... Java and Baly , Borneo and the Philippine Islands ; and Formosa . It is positively characterized by possessing 12 peculiar families of vertebrata ; by 55 genera of land mammalia , and 165 genera of land birds , altogether confined to it ...
... Java and Baly , Borneo and the Philippine Islands ; and Formosa . It is positively characterized by possessing 12 peculiar families of vertebrata ; by 55 genera of land mammalia , and 165 genera of land birds , altogether confined to it ...
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... Java [ ? ] India Nubia , Himalaya [ ? ] [ ? ] Cosmopolite Oriental , S. Africa S. Afric . Malaya , Austral . Himalayas Darjeeling , Timor Ethiop . , Neotrop . , Aus- tralian Oriental , Africa . Order , Family , and Genus . TALPIDE . No ...
... Java [ ? ] India Nubia , Himalaya [ ? ] [ ? ] Cosmopolite Oriental , S. Africa S. Afric . Malaya , Austral . Himalayas Darjeeling , Timor Ethiop . , Neotrop . , Aus- tralian Oriental , Africa . Order , Family , and Genus . TALPIDE . No ...
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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