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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... common error of cutting the gordian knot of each difficulty by vast hypothetical changes in existing continents and oceans -probably the most permanent features of our globe . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS CHAP ...
... common error of cutting the gordian knot of each difficulty by vast hypothetical changes in existing continents and oceans -probably the most permanent features of our globe . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS CHAP ...
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... common notion pigs can swim remarkably well . Sir Charles Lyell tells us in his " Principles of Geology " that during the floods in Scotland in 1829 , some pigs only six months . old that were carried out to sea , swam five miles and ...
... common notion pigs can swim remarkably well . Sir Charles Lyell tells us in his " Principles of Geology " that during the floods in Scotland in 1829 , some pigs only six months . old that were carried out to sea , swam five miles and ...
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... common to all locomotive animals , of moving about in search of food . This habit is greatly restricted in quadrupeds by their inability to cross the sea or even to pass through the highly - cultivated valleys of such countries as ...
... common to all locomotive animals , of moving about in search of food . This habit is greatly restricted in quadrupeds by their inability to cross the sea or even to pass through the highly - cultivated valleys of such countries as ...
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... common sparrowhawk , hairier , and the short - eared owl . These birds are almost all natives of Europe and Western Asia ; they spread over all northern and central India , mingling with the sedentary birds of the oriental fauna , and ...
... common sparrowhawk , hairier , and the short - eared owl . These birds are almost all natives of Europe and Western Asia ; they spread over all northern and central India , mingling with the sedentary birds of the oriental fauna , and ...
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... common to all animals , but greatly exaggerated in the case of birds by their powers of flight and by the necessity for procuring a large amount of soft insect food for their unfledged young . Migra- tion in its simple form may be best ...
... common to all animals , but greatly exaggerated in the case of birds by their powers of flight and by the necessity for procuring a large amount of soft insect food for their unfledged young . Migra- tion in its simple form may be best ...
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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