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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... LAND - MOLLUSCA . Extinct Mammalia of Australia ( p . 157 ) —Mammalian Remains of the Secondary Formations ( p . 159 ) -Extinct Birds ( p . 160 ) -Palearctic Region and North India ( p . 161 ) -North America ( p . 163 ) —South America ...
... LAND - MOLLUSCA . Extinct Mammalia of Australia ( p . 157 ) —Mammalian Remains of the Secondary Formations ( p . 159 ) -Extinct Birds ( p . 160 ) -Palearctic Region and North India ( p . 161 ) -North America ( p . 163 ) —South America ...
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... Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) ...
... Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) ...
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... land to the tropical islands of New Guinea and Celebes , and in America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in ...
... land to the tropical islands of New Guinea and Celebes , and in America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in ...
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... land raised above the sea by geological causes becomes immediately peopled by a crowd of competing inhabitants , the strongest and best adapted of which alone succeed in maintaining their position . If we keep in view these facts - that ...
... land raised above the sea by geological causes becomes immediately peopled by a crowd of competing inhabitants , the strongest and best adapted of which alone succeed in maintaining their position . If we keep in view these facts - that ...
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... land . Dispersal of Birds by Winds . - Those groups of birds which possess no powers of flight , such as the ostrich , cassowary , and apteryx , are in exactly the same position as mammalia as regards their means of dispersal , or are ...
... land . Dispersal of Birds by Winds . - Those groups of birds which possess no powers of flight , such as the ostrich , cassowary , and apteryx , are in exactly the same position as mammalia as regards their means of dispersal , or are ...
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