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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Page xiv
... Madagascar and the Cape Verd Islands : To Canon Tristram , for a detailed arrangement of the difficult family of the warblers , -Sylviidæ : To Viscount Walden , for notes on the systematic arrangement of the Pycnonotida and Timaliidæ ...
... Madagascar and the Cape Verd Islands : To Canon Tristram , for a detailed arrangement of the difficult family of the warblers , -Sylviidæ : To Viscount Walden , for notes on the systematic arrangement of the Pycnonotida and Timaliidæ ...
Page xix
... Madagascar , New Zealand ( p . 164 ) -Extinct Tertiary Reptiles ( p . 165 ) -Antiquity of the Genera of Insects ( p . 166 ) -Antiquity of the Genera of Land and Fresh - water Shells ( p . 168 ) 157-170 PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY ...
... Madagascar , New Zealand ( p . 164 ) -Extinct Tertiary Reptiles ( p . 165 ) -Antiquity of the Genera of Insects ( p . 166 ) -Antiquity of the Genera of Land and Fresh - water Shells ( p . 168 ) 157-170 PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY ...
Page xx
... Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands , or the Malagasy Sub - region ( p . 272 ) -The Mascarene Islands ( p . 280 ) -Extinct Fauna of the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar ( p . 282 ) —General Remarks on the Insect Fauna of Madagascar ( p ...
... Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands , or the Malagasy Sub - region ( p . 272 ) -The Mascarene Islands ( p . 280 ) -Extinct Fauna of the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar ( p . 282 ) —General Remarks on the Insect Fauna of Madagascar ( p ...
Page xxiii
... Madagascar with Characteristic Animals 10. Map of the Oriental Region . 278 315 · 11 . Plate VII . Scene in Nepaul with Characteristic Animals 12. Plate VIII . A Forest in Borneo with Characteristic Mammalia . 331 · 337 13. Plate IX . A ...
... Madagascar with Characteristic Animals 10. Map of the Oriental Region . 278 315 · 11 . Plate VII . Scene in Nepaul with Characteristic Animals 12. Plate VIII . A Forest in Borneo with Characteristic Mammalia . 331 · 337 13. Plate IX . A ...
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... Madagascar , and the birds - of - paradise to New Guinea . If we examine more closely the distribution of animals in any extensive region , we find that different , though closely allied species , are often found on the opposite sides ...
... Madagascar , and the birds - of - paradise to New Guinea . If we examine more closely the distribution of animals in any extensive region , we find that different , though closely allied species , are often found on the opposite sides ...
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