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 122
... Thibet . Hippopotamus occurs in the Plio- cene of the Nerbudda , and is represented in the older Miocene deposits by Hexaprotodon , of which three species have been found in various parts of India . Another remarkable genus ...
... Thibet . Hippopotamus occurs in the Plio- cene of the Nerbudda , and is represented in the older Miocene deposits by Hexaprotodon , of which three species have been found in various parts of India . Another remarkable genus ...
Page 182
... Thibet ; Addax , a well - known antelope of Northern Africa and Syria ; Procapra , Pantho- lops and Budorcas , antelopine genera peculiar to Thibet and Mongolia ; with Rupicapra ( the chamois ) , and the extraordinary large - nosed ...
... Thibet ; Addax , a well - known antelope of Northern Africa and Syria ; Procapra , Pantho- lops and Budorcas , antelopine genera peculiar to Thibet and Mongolia ; with Rupicapra ( the chamois ) , and the extraordinary large - nosed ...
Page 188
... Thibet . Cetoniid¿ , or rose - chafers , are represented by 13 genera , two of which are peculiar to South Europe ( Tropinota and Heterocnemis ) , while Stalagmosoma , ranging from Persia to Nubia , and the fine Dicranocephalus ...
... Thibet . Cetoniid¿ , or rose - chafers , are represented by 13 genera , two of which are peculiar to South Europe ( Tropinota and Heterocnemis ) , while Stalagmosoma , ranging from Persia to Nubia , and the fine Dicranocephalus ...
Page 195
... Thibet and by a third in Japan . The elegantly - formed creatures on the right are chamois ( Rupi- capra tragus ) , almost the only European antelopes , and wholly confined to the higher mountains , from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians ...
... Thibet and by a third in Japan . The elegantly - formed creatures on the right are chamois ( Rupi- capra tragus ) , almost the only European antelopes , and wholly confined to the higher mountains , from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians ...
Page 216
... Thibet , with the Kuenlun , Karakorum , and Hima- layan snow - capped ranges , forming the most extensive elevated district on the globe . The superficial aspects of this vast territory , as determined by its vegetable covering , are ...
... Thibet , with the Kuenlun , Karakorum , and Hima- layan snow - capped ranges , forming the most extensive elevated district on the globe . The superficial aspects of this vast territory , as determined by its vegetable covering , are ...
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