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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Page viii
... nearly the first written , and the copious materials collected for it enabled me to determine the zoo- geographical divisions of the earth ( regions and sub - regions ) to be adopted . I next drew up tables of the families and genera ...
... nearly the first written , and the copious materials collected for it enabled me to determine the zoo- geographical divisions of the earth ( regions and sub - regions ) to be adopted . I next drew up tables of the families and genera ...
Page xii
... established names , for convenience of reference to the Indices of established works . As an example I may refer to Enicurus , a name which has been in use nearly half a century , and which is to be found under the xii PREFACE .
... established names , for convenience of reference to the Indices of established works . As an example I may refer to Enicurus , a name which has been in use nearly half a century , and which is to be found under the xii PREFACE .
Page 6
... nearly or quite identical on their opposite shores . A change of climate or a change of vegetation may form an equally effective barrier to migration . Many tropical and polar animals are pretty accu- rately limited by certain ...
... nearly or quite identical on their opposite shores . A change of climate or a change of vegetation may form an equally effective barrier to migration . Many tropical and polar animals are pretty accu- rately limited by certain ...
Page 26
... nearly all gone that the young go too , probably following some of the latest stragglers . They wander , however , almost at ran- dom , and the majority are destroyed before the next spring . This is proved by the fact that the birds ...
... nearly all gone that the young go too , probably following some of the latest stragglers . They wander , however , almost at ran- dom , and the majority are destroyed before the next spring . This is proved by the fact that the birds ...
Page 35
... nearly three- fourths of the surface of the earth is occupied by water , and but a little more than one - fourth by land , is important as indicating the vast extent of ocean by which many of the continents and islands are separated ...
... nearly three- fourths of the surface of the earth is occupied by water , and but a little more than one - fourth by land , is important as indicating the vast extent of ocean by which many of the continents and islands are separated ...
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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