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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Page v
... interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on ...
... interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on ...
Page viii
... interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great uncertainty that prevails as to the ...
... interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great uncertainty that prevails as to the ...
Page x
... interesting and in- structive . In order to make the book more intelligible to those readers who have no special knowledge of systematic zoology , and to whom most of the names with which its pages are often crowded must necessarily be ...
... interesting and in- structive . In order to make the book more intelligible to those readers who have no special knowledge of systematic zoology , and to whom most of the names with which its pages are often crowded must necessarily be ...
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... interesting features . The birds of the eastern parts of North America are pre - eminently migratory , a much smaller pro- portion being permanent residents than in corresponding latitudes in Europe . Thus , in Massachusetts there are ...
... interesting features . The birds of the eastern parts of North America are pre - eminently migratory , a much smaller pro- portion being permanent residents than in corresponding latitudes in Europe . Thus , in Massachusetts there are ...
Page 24
... interesting cases have been observed in America of a gradual alteration in the extent of the migration of certain birds . A Mexican swallow ( Hirundo lunifrons ) first appeared in Ohio in 1815. Year by year it increased the extent of ...
... interesting cases have been observed in America of a gradual alteration in the extent of the migration of certain birds . A Mexican swallow ( Hirundo lunifrons ) first appeared in Ohio in 1815. Year by year it increased the extent 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