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 6
... latter possesses moles , hedgehogs and true fly- catchers . Equally striking are the facts presented by the distribution of many large and important groups of animals . Marsupials ( opossums , phalangers & c . ) are found from temperate ...
... latter possesses moles , hedgehogs and true fly- catchers . Equally striking are the facts presented by the distribution of many large and important groups of animals . Marsupials ( opossums , phalangers & c . ) are found from temperate ...
Page 13
... latter of Ecuador . The range of the birds of the genus Psophia or trumpeters , is also limited by the rivers Amazon , Madeira , Rio Negro and some others ; so that in these cases we are able to define the limits of distribution with an ...
... latter of Ecuador . The range of the birds of the genus Psophia or trumpeters , is also limited by the rivers Amazon , Madeira , Rio Negro and some others ; so that in these cases we are able to define the limits of distribution with an ...
Page 20
... latter , however , seldom go so far as the old ones ; and numbers of young birds do not cross the Mediter- ranean , but stay in the south of Europe . The same rule applies to the northward migration ; the young birds stopping short of ...
... latter , however , seldom go so far as the old ones ; and numbers of young birds do not cross the Mediter- ranean , but stay in the south of Europe . The same rule applies to the northward migration ; the young birds stopping short of ...
Page 59
... latter includes only Australasia and the Neotropical or Austro - Columbian region . Mr. Sclater had grouped his regions primarily into Pal¿ogea and Neog¿a , the Old and New Worlds of geographers ; a division which strikingly accords ...
... latter includes only Australasia and the Neotropical or Austro - Columbian region . Mr. Sclater had grouped his regions primarily into Pal¿ogea and Neog¿a , the Old and New Worlds of geographers ; a division which strikingly accords ...
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... latter would be more natural . No doubt much is to be said for both views , but both cannot be right ; and it will be shown in the latter part of this chapter that the Nearctic region is , on the whole , fully as well defined as the ...
... latter would be more natural . No doubt much is to be said for both views , but both cannot be right ; and it will be shown in the latter part of this chapter that the Nearctic region is , on the whole , fully as well defined as the ...
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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 hy¿nas 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