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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Page 51
... genus , we are almost sure to meet with some anomalies either in the present or past distri- bution of the various forms . Let us adduce a few examples of these problems . Deer have a wonderfully wide range , over the whole of Europe ...
... genus , we are almost sure to meet with some anomalies either in the present or past distri- bution of the various forms . Let us adduce a few examples of these problems . Deer have a wonderfully wide range , over the whole of Europe ...
Page 52
... genus ; and that belongs to an Order , " Insectivora , " entirely absent from South America , and to a family , " Centetidæ , " all the other species of which inhabit Madagascar only . And as if to add force to this singular ...
... genus ; and that belongs to an Order , " Insectivora , " entirely absent from South America , and to a family , " Centetidæ , " all the other species of which inhabit Madagascar only . And as if to add force to this singular ...
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... genus has too wide an extension in the temperate zone to be considered arctic . Among aquatic birds we have the genus of ducks , Somateria ; three genera of Uriidæ , Uria , Catarractes , and Mergulus ; and the small family Alcidæ ...
... genus has too wide an extension in the temperate zone to be considered arctic . Among aquatic birds we have the genus of ducks , Somateria ; three genera of Uriidæ , Uria , Catarractes , and Mergulus ; and the small family Alcidæ ...
Page 113
... genus Tapirus in the Newer Pliocene of France and in the older beds of both France and England , since this genus is now isolated in the remotest parts of the eastern and western tropics . The genera Rhinoceros , Hippopotamus , and Sus ...
... genus Tapirus in the Newer Pliocene of France and in the older beds of both France and England , since this genus is now isolated in the remotest parts of the eastern and western tropics . The genera Rhinoceros , Hippopotamus , and Sus ...
Page 118
... genus Viverra , and three extinct forms - Thalassictis = Ietitherium , as large as a panther , and Soricictis , a smaller form , occurring both in France and Hungary . Of Hyanide , there was the living genus Hyana , and the extinct ...
... genus Viverra , and three extinct forms - Thalassictis = Ietitherium , as large as a panther , and Soricictis , a smaller form , occurring both in France and Hungary . Of Hyanide , there was the living genus Hyana , and the extinct ...
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