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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... comparatively recent modification , and an origin in or near the locality where it occurs ; the other is a result of very ancient changes both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the ...
... comparatively recent modification , and an origin in or near the locality where it occurs ; the other is a result of very ancient changes both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the ...
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... comparatively scarce in the forest plains where monkeys are very 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 ...
... comparatively scarce in the forest plains where monkeys are very 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 ...
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... comparatively shallow water still existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by the large amount of identity in the species of land animals still inhabiting the opposite shores of the ...
... comparatively shallow water still existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by the large amount of identity in the species of land animals still inhabiting the opposite shores of the ...
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... comparatively few of these migratory birds 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 ...
... comparatively few of these migratory birds 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 ...
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... comparatively recent visitors . Other changes may however have taken place , affecting the vegetation and conse- quently the insects of a district ; and we have seldom the means of determining in any particular case in what direction ...
... comparatively recent visitors . Other changes may however have taken place , affecting the vegetation and conse- quently the insects of a district ; and we have seldom the means of determining in any particular case in what direction ...
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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