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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... abundant . A more detailed and accurate knowledge of the productions of different portions of the earth soon showed that this explanation was quite insufficient ; for it was found that countries exceed- ingly similar in climate and all ...
... abundant . A more detailed and accurate knowledge of the productions of different portions of the earth soon showed that this explanation was quite insufficient ; for it was found that countries exceed- ingly similar in climate and all ...
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... abundant , while they are plentiful on the open plains and campos , and on the mountain plateaux , where these nest - hunting quadrupeds are rarely found . Some birds are confined to swamps , others to mountains ; some can only live on ...
... abundant , while they are plentiful on the open plains and campos , and on the mountain plateaux , where these nest - hunting quadrupeds are rarely found . Some birds are confined to swamps , others to mountains ; some can only live on ...
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... abundant , or as flooded tracts dry up . On the borders of the tropics and the temperate zone extends a belt of country of a more or less arid character , and liable to be parched at the summer solstice . In winter and early spring its ...
... abundant , or as flooded tracts dry up . On the borders of the tropics and the temperate zone extends a belt of country of a more or less arid character , and liable to be parched at the summer solstice . In winter and early spring its ...
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... cold lati- tudes , is because caterpillars and other soft insect larvæ are there abundant at the proper time , while in their winter home the larvæ have all changed into winged insects . But this CHAP . II . ] 27 BIRDS .
... cold lati- tudes , is because caterpillars and other soft insect larvæ are there abundant at the proper time , while in their winter home the larvæ have all changed into winged insects . But this CHAP . II . ] 27 BIRDS .
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... abundant all over the globe , inhabiting the most remote oceanic islands . It has been found , however , that land - shells have the power of lying dormant a long time . Some have lived two years and a half shut up in pill boxes ; and ...
... abundant all over the globe , inhabiting the most remote oceanic islands . It has been found , however , that land - shells have the power of lying dormant a long time . Some have lived two years and a half shut up in pill boxes ; and ...
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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