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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... forests , pastures , deserts , and peren- nial snows , are exhibited by means of appropriate tints of colour . These maps will , I trust , facilitate the study of geographical distribution as a science , by showing , in some cases , an ...
... forests , pastures , deserts , and peren- nial snows , are exhibited by means of appropriate tints of colour . These maps will , I trust , facilitate the study of geographical distribution as a science , by showing , in some cases , an ...
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... Forest in Borneo with Characteristic Mammalia . 331 · 337 13. Plate IX . A Malacca Forest with some of its Peculiar Birds 340 14. Map of the Australian Region 387 15. Plate X. Scene in New Guinea with Characteristic Animals . 415 16 ...
... Forest in Borneo with Characteristic Mammalia . 331 · 337 13. Plate IX . A Malacca Forest with some of its Peculiar Birds 340 14. Map of the Australian Region 387 15. Plate X. Scene in New Guinea with Characteristic Animals . 415 16 ...
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... forests , the chalky downs , the rocky mountains , had each their peculiar inhabitants , which reappeared again and again as we came to tracts of country suitable for them . But as we got further away we began to find that localities ...
... forests , the chalky downs , the rocky mountains , had each their peculiar inhabitants , which reappeared again and again as we came to tracts of country suitable for them . But as we got further away we began to find that localities ...
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... forests . Mountains and marshes , plains and rocky precipices , have each their animal inhabitants ; and it might well be thought , in the absence of accurate inquiry , that these and other differences would sufficiently explain why ...
... forests . Mountains and marshes , plains and rocky precipices , have each their animal inhabitants ; and it might well be thought , in the absence of accurate inquiry , that these and other differences would sufficiently explain why ...
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... forests in most parts of the world strictly determine the ranges of many species . Naturalists have now arrived at the conclusion , that by some · slow process of development or transmutation , all animals 6 [ PART 1 . DISTRIBUTION OF ...
... forests in most parts of the world strictly determine the ranges of many species . Naturalists have now arrived at the conclusion , that by some · slow process of development or transmutation , all animals 6 [ PART 1 . DISTRIBUTION OF ...
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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