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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... doubts about the value of this mode of illustration , as it seemed rather to attract attention to details than to favour the development of general views . I determined therefore to adopt a plan , suggested in conversation by Professor ...
... doubts about the value of this mode of illustration , as it seemed rather to attract attention to details than to favour the development of general views . I determined therefore to adopt a plan , suggested in conversation by Professor ...
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... vegetation and of insect life , together with an unhealthy atmos- phere , no doubt often checks migration if it is attempted . Thus many animals are restricted to the slopes of the Himalayas 12 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
... vegetation and of insect life , together with an unhealthy atmos- phere , no doubt often checks migration if it is attempted . Thus many animals are restricted to the slopes of the Himalayas 12 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
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... doubt the same barriers also limit a large number of other species . Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals . - Very few mammals can swim over any considerable extent of sea , although many can swim well for short distances . The jaguar ...
... doubt the same barriers also limit a large number of other species . Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals . - Very few mammals can swim over any considerable extent of sea , although many can swim well for short distances . The jaguar ...
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... doubt that the sea - passage is now very dangerous to many birds . Quails cross in immense flocks , and great numbers are drowned at sea whenever the weather is un- favourable . Some individuals always stay through the winter in the ...
... doubt that the sea - passage is now very dangerous to many birds . Quails cross in immense flocks , and great numbers are drowned at sea whenever the weather is un- favourable . Some individuals always stay through the winter in the ...
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... doubt sometimes carried by aquatic birds from one pond or stream to another . Salt water is fatal to them as well as to their eggs , and hence it arises that they are seldom found in those oceanic islands from which mammalia are absent ...
... doubt sometimes carried by aquatic birds from one pond or stream to another . Salt water is fatal to them as well as to their eggs , and hence it arises that they are seldom found in those oceanic islands from which mammalia are absent ...
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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