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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... extend their range ; and thus any new land raised above the sea by geological causes becomes immediately peopled by a crowd of competing inhabitants , the strongest and best adapted of which alone succeed in maintaining their position ...
... extend their range ; and thus any new land raised above the sea by geological causes becomes immediately peopled by a crowd of competing inhabitants , the strongest and best adapted of which alone succeed in maintaining their position ...
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... extend their range into lowlands or forests . The goats and the sheep are the most striking group of this kind , inhabit- ing many of the highest mountains of the globe ; of which the European ibex and mouflon are striking examples ...
... extend their range into lowlands or forests . The goats and the sheep are the most striking group of this kind , inhabit- ing many of the highest mountains of the globe ; of which the European ibex and mouflon are striking examples ...
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... extends to the north bank of the river while Lagothrix humboldtii comes down to the south bank ; the former being a native of Guiana , the latter of Ecuador . The range of the birds of the genus Psophia or trumpeters , is also limited ...
... extends to the north bank of the river while Lagothrix humboldtii comes down to the south bank ; the former being a native of Guiana , the latter of Ecuador . The range of the birds of the genus Psophia or trumpeters , is also limited ...
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... extend their ordinary range of migration to an unusual degree . We will now endeavour to sketch the chief phenomena of migration in different countries . Europe . It is well ascertained that most of the birds that spend their spring and ...
... extend their ordinary range of migration to an unusual degree . We will now endeavour to sketch the chief phenomena of migration in different countries . Europe . It is well ascertained that most of the birds that spend their spring and ...
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... extends a belt of country of a more or less arid character , and liable to be parched at the summer solstice . In ... extending farther north than York- shire . It spreads over Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern ...
... extends a belt of country of a more or less arid character , and liable to be parched at the summer solstice . In ... extending farther north than York- shire . It spreads over Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern ...
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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