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
... natural history of every part of the world , upon the study of its past history . An accurate knowledge of any groups of birds or of insects and of their geographical dis- tribution , may enable us to map out the islands and continents ...
... natural history of every part of the world , upon the study of its past history . An accurate knowledge of any groups of birds or of insects and of their geographical dis- tribution , may enable us to map out the islands and continents ...
Page vii
... not so clearly connected with geographical changes as are the natural groups of species termed genera ; which may be considered to represent the average and more permanent distribution of an organic type , and to be more PREFACE . vii.
... not so clearly connected with geographical changes as are the natural groups of species termed genera ; which may be considered to represent the average and more permanent distribution of an organic type , and to be more PREFACE . vii.
Page xiv
... natural genera , and referring me to reliable sources of information . I am also greatly indebted to the following gentlemen for detailed information on special subjects : - To Sir Victor Brooke , for a MS . arrangement of the genera of ...
... natural genera , and referring me to reliable sources of information . I am also greatly indebted to the following gentlemen for detailed information on special subjects : - To Sir Victor Brooke , for a MS . arrangement of the genera of ...
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... natural division of the earth especially adapted to our purpose ; and we shall have to discuss at some length the reasons for the particular system adopted , -a discussion which must to some extent anticipate and summarize the ...
... natural division of the earth especially adapted to our purpose ; and we shall have to discuss at some length the reasons for the particular system adopted , -a discussion which must to some extent anticipate and summarize the ...
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... natural tendency is to roam in every direction in search of fresh pastures , or new hunting grounds . In doing so , however , they meet with many obstacles . Rocks and mountains have to be climbed , rivers or marshes to be crossed ...
... natural tendency is to roam in every direction in search of fresh pastures , or new hunting grounds . In doing so , however , they meet with many obstacles . Rocks and mountains have to be climbed , rivers or marshes to be crossed ...
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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