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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... appear to have accompanied , and perhaps to have depended on , changes of physical geography , of climate , or of vegetation ; since it is evident that an animal which is well adapted to one condition of things will require to be ...
... appear to have accompanied , and perhaps to have depended on , changes of physical geography , of climate , or of vegetation ; since it is evident that an animal which is well adapted to one condition of things will require to be ...
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... appears to limit the range of many animals , though there is some reason to believe that in many cases it is not the climate itself so much as the change of vegetation consequent on climate which produces the effect . The quadrumana appear ...
... appears to limit the range of many animals , though there is some reason to believe that in many cases it is not the climate itself so much as the change of vegetation consequent on climate which produces the effect . The quadrumana appear ...
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... appear - the cuckoo , the swifts and swallows , and numerous warblers , being the most familiar , -which stay to build their nests and rear their young , and then leave us again . These are true migrants ; but a number of other birds ...
... appear - the cuckoo , the swifts and swallows , and numerous warblers , being the most familiar , -which stay to build their nests and rear their young , and then leave us again . These are true migrants ; but a number of other birds ...
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... appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally the coast line , coming southwards in winter from eastern Siberia and northern Japan ; while a few purely tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland ...
... appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally the coast line , coming southwards in winter from eastern Siberia and northern Japan ; while a few purely tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland ...
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... appear in spring with great regularity , while the time of the autumnal return is less con- stant . More curious is the fact , also observed in both hemi- spheres , that they do not all return by the same route followed in going ...
... appear in spring with great regularity , while the time of the autumnal return is less con- stant . More curious is the fact , also observed in both hemi- spheres , that they do not all return by the same route followed in going ...
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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