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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... America and Europe ( p.140 ) - South Ame- rica ( p . 143 ) -Fauna of the Brazilian Caves ( p . 143 ) -Pliocene Period of Tem- perate South America ( p . 146 ) -Pliocene Mammalia of the Antilles ( p . 148 ) --- Eocene Fauna of South America ...
... America and Europe ( p.140 ) - South Ame- rica ( p . 143 ) -Fauna of the Brazilian Caves ( p . 143 ) -Pliocene Period of Tem- perate South America ( p . 146 ) -Pliocene Mammalia of the Antilles ( p . 148 ) --- Eocene Fauna of South America ...
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... South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The Moluccas ( p . 417 ) —Insects ...
... South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The Moluccas ( p . 417 ) —Insects ...
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... South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their animal life is widely different ; elephants , apes , leopards , guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are replaced by ...
... South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their animal life is widely different ; elephants , apes , leopards , guinea - fowls and touracos in the one , are replaced by ...
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... America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in Africa and Asia ; the sloths only in South America ; the true ...
... America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in Africa and Asia ; the sloths only in South America ; the true ...
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... South America , and the bear and bison cross the Mississippi ; and there can be no doubt that they could swim over equal widths of salt water , and if accidentally carried out to sea might sometimes succeed in reaching islands many ...
... South America , and the bear and bison cross the Mississippi ; and there can be no doubt that they could swim over equal widths of salt water , and if accidentally carried out to sea might sometimes succeed in reaching islands many ...
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