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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... feet thus 1,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 Tropic of Capricorn Chathamls 10,000 15,000 15,000 downwards The deepest known soundings are given in feet .. Lima 1 Desert RN L.Baikal Dauria Amer Gobi or Shamo Desert Manchuria Pekin MONGOLIA Moupin ...
... feet thus 1,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 Tropic of Capricorn Chathamls 10,000 15,000 15,000 downwards The deepest known soundings are given in feet .. Lima 1 Desert RN L.Baikal Dauria Amer Gobi or Shamo Desert Manchuria Pekin MONGOLIA Moupin ...
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... feet , where it has been seen leaping among fir - trees loaded with snow - wreaths ! Some northern animals are bounded by the isothermal of 32 ° . Such are the polar bear and the walrus , which cannot live in a state of nature far ...
... feet , where it has been seen leaping among fir - trees loaded with snow - wreaths ! Some northern animals are bounded by the isothermal of 32 ° . Such are the polar bear and the walrus , which cannot live in a state of nature far ...
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... feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains to the lowlands in severe weather . In dry seasons great herds of antelopes move southwards towards the Cape of Good Hope . The well - known lemmings , in ...
... feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains to the lowlands in severe weather . In dry seasons great herds of antelopes move southwards towards the Cape of Good Hope . The well - known lemmings , in ...
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... feet elevation in the Alps . Some inhabit deserts , others swamps and marshes , while many are adapted for a life in forests . They swim rivers easily , but apparently have no means of passing the sea , since they are very rarely found ...
... feet elevation in the Alps . Some inhabit deserts , others swamps and marshes , while many are adapted for a life in forests . They swim rivers easily , but apparently have no means of passing the sea , since they are very rarely found ...
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... the sea , and this is probably one of the most effectual modes of their dispersal . Very young shells would also some- times attach themselves to the feet of birds walking or CHAP . II . ] 31 LAND - SHELLS AND INSECTS .
... the sea , and this is probably one of the most effectual modes of their dispersal . Very young shells would also some- times attach themselves to the feet of birds walking or CHAP . II . ] 31 LAND - SHELLS AND INSECTS .
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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