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 xviii
... Pal¿arctic Region ( p . 71 ) Ethiopian Region ( p . 73 ) -Oriental Region ( p . 75 ) -- Australian Re- gion ( p . 77 ) -Neotropical Region ( p.78 ) -Nearctic Region ( p . 79 ) -- Observations on the series of Sub - regions ( p . 80 ) ...
... Pal¿arctic Region ( p . 71 ) Ethiopian Region ( p . 73 ) -Oriental Region ( p . 75 ) -- Australian Re- gion ( p . 77 ) -Neotropical Region ( p.78 ) -Nearctic Region ( p . 79 ) -- Observations on the series of Sub - regions ( p . 80 ) ...
Page xx
... Pal¿- arctic Vertebrata ( p . 186 ) -Insects ( p . 187 ) -Land - shells ( p . 190 ) -The Pal¿- arctic Sub - regions ... Pal¿arctic , and Ethiopian Genera of Birds in Central India ( p . 224 ) -Sub - region of Ceylon and South India ( p ...
... Pal¿- arctic Vertebrata ( p . 186 ) -Insects ( p . 187 ) -Land - shells ( p . 190 ) -The Pal¿- arctic Sub - regions ... Pal¿arctic , and Ethiopian Genera of Birds in Central India ( p . 224 ) -Sub - region of Ceylon and South India ( p ...
Page 65
... Pal¿arctic , and very much less so than the Ethiopian region ; while even the comparatively poor Nearctic . region , is nearly equal to it in the number of its family types . If these were united they would possess fifty - five families ...
... Pal¿arctic , and very much less so than the Ethiopian region ; while even the comparatively poor Nearctic . region , is nearly equal to it in the number of its family types . If these were united they would possess fifty - five families ...
Page 66
... Pal¿arctic , by posi- tive characters which differentiate it from both the adjacent regions . More evidence in the same direction will be found in the Second Part of this work , in which the extinct faunas of the several regions are ...
... Pal¿arctic , by posi- tive characters which differentiate it from both the adjacent regions . More evidence in the same direction will be found in the Second Part of this work , in which the extinct faunas of the several regions are ...
Page 70
... Pal¿ arctic , Ethiopian , and Oriental regions , and contains a number of " desert " forms wholly or almost wholly restricted to it ; but the attempt to define it as a separate region would introduce difficulty and confusion . Neither ...
... Pal¿ arctic , Ethiopian , and Oriental regions , and contains a number of " desert " forms wholly or almost wholly restricted to it ; but the attempt to define it as a separate region would introduce difficulty and confusion . Neither ...
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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 hy¿nas 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