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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... Sumatra Java L. Comoro Is Keeling Is Nyassa GUIANA RU B R Amazon R REOTROPICAL S.Paul Rocas FNoronhal . Pernambuco Ascension Z I L RSFra Bahia L.Titicaca BOLIVIA Andes REGION Rio Janeiro Coquimbo Valparaiso Juan Fernandez I. Valdivia ...
... Sumatra Java L. Comoro Is Keeling Is Nyassa GUIANA RU B R Amazon R REOTROPICAL S.Paul Rocas FNoronhal . Pernambuco Ascension Z I L RSFra Bahia L.Titicaca BOLIVIA Andes REGION Rio Janeiro Coquimbo Valparaiso Juan Fernandez I. Valdivia ...
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... Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding Remarks on the Oriental Region ( p . 362 ) -Table I ...
... Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding Remarks on the Oriental Region ( p . 362 ) -Table I ...
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... Sumatra ; the winds that carry volcanic dust and ashes for thousands of miles ; the hurricanes that travel in their revolving course over wide oceans ; all indicate means by whichi a few insects may , at rare intervals be carried to ...
... Sumatra ; the winds that carry volcanic dust and ashes for thousands of miles ; the hurricanes that travel in their revolving course over wide oceans ; all indicate means by whichi a few insects may , at rare intervals be carried to ...
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... Sumatra , in which the Lemuroid type of animals was devel- oped . This is undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable sup- position , and it is an example of the way in which a study of the geographical distribution of animals may ...
... Sumatra , in which the Lemuroid type of animals was devel- oped . This is undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable sup- position , and it is an example of the way in which a study of the geographical distribution of animals may ...
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... Sumatra and New Guinea are examples ) , that it is quite as probable as not , that any such isolated species has only become peculiar to the region by the recent extinction of an allied form or forms in some other region . On the other ...
... Sumatra and New Guinea are examples ) , that it is quite as probable as not , that any such isolated species has only become peculiar to the region by the recent extinction of an allied form or forms in some other region . On the other ...
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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 hyænas 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