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 vi
... absence of general systematic works , and the excessive confusion that pervaded the classification . Neither was it easy to decide on any satisfactory method of treating the subject . During the next two years , however , several im ...
... absence of general systematic works , and the excessive confusion that pervaded the classification . Neither was it easy to decide on any satisfactory method of treating the subject . During the next two years , however , several im ...
Page 5
... absence of accurate inquiry , that these and other differences would sufficiently explain why most of the regions and countries into which the earth is popularly divided should have certain animals peculiar to them and should want ...
... absence of accurate inquiry , that these and other differences would sufficiently explain why most of the regions and countries into which the earth is popularly divided should have certain animals peculiar to them and should want ...
Page 17
... absence can hardly be due to the prevailing winds being westerly . The case of the Azores is , however , an argument for the unassisted passage of birds for that distance ; since two of the finches are peculiar ' species , ' but closely ...
... absence can hardly be due to the prevailing winds being westerly . The case of the Azores is , however , an argument for the unassisted passage of birds for that distance ; since two of the finches are peculiar ' species , ' but closely ...
Page 19
... absence of such barriers and of such physical diversities as occur on the land , they are of far less interest and less connected with our present study than the movements of birds , to which we shall now confine ourselves . Migrations ...
... absence of such barriers and of such physical diversities as occur on the land , they are of far less interest and less connected with our present study than the movements of birds , to which we shall now confine ourselves . Migrations ...
Page 29
... absent . Deserts and oceans would probably form the most effectual barriers to their dis- persal ; whereas both snakes and lizards abound in deserts , and have some means of occasionally passing the ocean which frogs . and salamanders ...
... absent . Deserts and oceans would probably form the most effectual barriers to their dis- persal ; whereas both snakes and lizards abound in deserts , and have some means of occasionally passing the ocean which frogs . and salamanders ...
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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