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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... North America - Post - pliocene Period ( p . 129 ) -- Remarks on the Post - pliocene Fauna of North America ( p . 130 ) -Tertiary Period ( p . 132 ) -Primates ( p . 32 ) Insectivora ( p . 133 ) -Carnivora ( p . 134 ) -Ungulata ( p . 135 ) ...
... North America - Post - pliocene Period ( p . 129 ) -- Remarks on the Post - pliocene Fauna of North America ( p . 130 ) -Tertiary Period ( p . 132 ) -Primates ( p . 32 ) Insectivora ( p . 133 ) -Carnivora ( p . 134 ) -Ungulata ( p . 135 ) ...
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... North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan and North China , or the Manchurian Sub ...
... North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan and North China , or the Manchurian Sub ...
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... north bank of the river but never on the south , where a red - whiskered Pithecia is alone found . Higher up Ateles paniscus extends to the north bank of the river while Lagothrix humboldtii comes down to the south bank ; the former ...
... north bank of the river but never on the south , where a red - whiskered Pithecia is alone found . Higher up Ateles paniscus extends to the north bank of the river while Lagothrix humboldtii comes down to the south bank ; the former ...
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... North American species either regularly or occasionally visit the Bermudas , a distance of 600 miles from the mainland . The oceanic mammals ( whales and porpoises ) seem to have no barrier but temperature ; the polar species being ...
... North American species either regularly or occasionally visit the Bermudas , a distance of 600 miles from the mainland . The oceanic mammals ( whales and porpoises ) seem to have no barrier but temperature ; the polar species being ...
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... North Africa and Western Asia . The winter visitants , on the other hand , pass the summer in the extreme north of Europe and Asia , many of them having been found to breed in Lapland . The arrival of migratory birds from the south is ...
... North Africa and Western Asia . The winter visitants , on the other hand , pass the summer in the extreme north of Europe and Asia , many of them having been found to breed in Lapland . The arrival of migratory birds from the south is ...
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