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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... The Past History of Ceylon and South India , as indicated by its Fauna ( p . 328 ) -Himalayan or Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 329 ) —Islands of the Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 333 XX CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
... The Past History of Ceylon and South India , as indicated by its Fauna ( p . 328 ) -Himalayan or Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 329 ) —Islands of the Indo - Chinese Sub - region ( p . 333 XX CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
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... indicated by their depth . Thus islands far away from land almost always have very peculiar animals found nowhere else ; as is strikingly the case in Madagascar and New Zealand , and to a less degree in the West India islands . But ...
... indicated by their depth . Thus islands far away from land almost always have very peculiar animals found nowhere else ; as is strikingly the case in Madagascar and New Zealand , and to a less degree in the West India islands . But ...
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... indicate the existence of islands or conti- nents now sunk beneath the ocean , and which have left no record of their existence save the animal and vegetable pro- ductions which have migrated to adjacent lands . It thus becomes an ...
... indicate the existence of islands or conti- nents now sunk beneath the ocean , and which have left no record of their existence save the animal and vegetable pro- ductions which have migrated to adjacent lands . It thus becomes an ...
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... and there are facts in the distribution of this tribe of animals which seem to indicate that they have sometimes done so . Deer take boldly to the water and can swim considerable distances CHAP . II . ] 13 DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
... and there are facts in the distribution of this tribe of animals which seem to indicate that they have sometimes done so . Deer take boldly to the water and can swim considerable distances CHAP . II . ] 13 DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
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... indicate one of the means by which they may be transferred from one river basin to another , viz . , by hurricanes and whirlwinds , which often carry up considerable quantities of water and with it fishes of small size . In volcanic ...
... indicate one of the means by which they may be transferred from one river basin to another , viz . , by hurricanes and whirlwinds , which often carry up considerable quantities of water and with it fishes of small size . In volcanic ...
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