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 xxi
... Malaya , or the Malayan Sub - region ( p . 334 ) -Malayan Insects ( p . 341 ) -The Zoological Relations of the several Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca ...
... Malaya , or the Malayan Sub - region ( p . 334 ) -Malayan Insects ( p . 341 ) -The Zoological Relations of the several Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca ...
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... Malayan and not to Indian groups , and a fine butterfly of the genus Hestia , as well as several genera of beetles , which are purely Malayan . Various important groups of animals are distributed in a way not easy to explain . The ...
... Malayan and not to Indian groups , and a fine butterfly of the genus Hestia , as well as several genera of beetles , which are purely Malayan . Various important groups of animals are distributed in a way not easy to explain . The ...
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... Malayan region , ” because in the Malay countries it is most highly developed . Ceylon and the mountain ranges of Southern India have marked Malay affinities . In 1871 Mr. E. Blyth published in Nature " A suggested new Division of the ...
... Malayan region , ” because in the Malay countries it is most highly developed . Ceylon and the mountain ranges of Southern India have marked Malay affinities . In 1871 Mr. E. Blyth published in Nature " A suggested new Division of the ...
Page 75
... Malayan , " proposed by Mr. Blanford , a good term , ( as it has a very circumscribed and definite meaning , and especially because the " Malay " archi- pelago is half of it in the Australian region , ) I propose to use the word ...
... Malayan , " proposed by Mr. Blanford , a good term , ( as it has a very circumscribed and definite meaning , and especially because the " Malay " archi- pelago is half of it in the Australian region , ) I propose to use the word ...
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... Malayan sub - region , comprising the Peninsula of Malacca and the Malay Islands to Baly , Borneo , and the Philippines . On account of the absence from the first sub - region of many of the forms most characteristic of the other three ...
... Malayan sub - region , comprising the Peninsula of Malacca and the Malay Islands to Baly , Borneo , and the Philippines . On account of the absence from the first sub - region of many of the forms most characteristic of the other three ...
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