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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... classed as stragglers , which , perhaps from too rapid multiplication one year and want of food the next , are driven to extend their ordinary range of migration to an unusual degree . We will now endeavour to sketch the chief phenomena ...
... classed as stragglers , which , perhaps from too rapid multiplication one year and want of food the next , are driven to extend their ordinary range of migration to an unusual degree . We will now endeavour to sketch the chief phenomena ...
Page 62
... classed in a distinct order , Rhyncho- cephalina , that the rank of a Region is claimed for it . But supposing , what is not at all improbable , that other Rhyncho- cephalina should be discovered in the interior of Australia or in New ...
... classed in a distinct order , Rhyncho- cephalina , that the rank of a Region is claimed for it . But supposing , what is not at all improbable , that other Rhyncho- cephalina should be discovered in the interior of Australia or in New ...
Page 69
... classed as " arctic , " which does not exclusively inhabit or greatly prepon- derate in arctic lands . For the purpose of establishing the need of an " arctic " zoological region , we should consider chiefly such groups as are ...
... classed as " arctic , " which does not exclusively inhabit or greatly prepon- derate in arctic lands . For the purpose of establishing the need of an " arctic " zoological region , we should consider chiefly such groups as are ...
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... classed in separate families or sub - families . The African affinity is how- ever here more strongly shown by the considerable number ( 13 ) of peculiar Ethiopian genera which in Madagascar have repre- sentative species . There can be ...
... classed in separate families or sub - families . The African affinity is how- ever here more strongly shown by the considerable number ( 13 ) of peculiar Ethiopian genera which in Madagascar have repre- sentative species . There can be ...
Page 76
... classed as a part of the Ethiopian region . This question will be found fully discussed in Chapter XII . devoted to the Oriental region , where it is shown that the African affinity is far less than has been represented , and that in ...
... classed as a part of the Ethiopian region . This question will be found fully discussed in Chapter XII . devoted to the Oriental region , where it is shown that the African affinity is far less than has been represented , and that in ...
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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