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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... Northern and Arctic Europe : To Dr. Hooker , for information on the colours and odours of New Zealand plants : To Mr. Kirby , for a list of the butterflies of Chili : To Professor Mivart , for a classification of the Batrachia , and an ...
... Northern and Arctic Europe : To Dr. Hooker , for information on the colours and odours of New Zealand plants : To Mr. Kirby , for a list of the butterflies of Chili : To Professor Mivart , for a classification of the Batrachia , and an ...
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... Northern Europe ( p . 191 ) -North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan and North ...
... Northern Europe ( p . 191 ) -North European Islands ( p . 197 ) -Mediterranean Sub - region ( p . 199 ) -The Mediter- ranean and Atlantic Islands ( p . 206 ) -The Siberian Sub - region , or Northern Asia ( p . 216 ) -Japan and North ...
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... Northern Asia | N. America . 99 245 , last line , insert in 2nd column ( 6 ) . 309 , line 20 , for Motacilla read Budytes . ,, 327 , 12 lines from foot , after Hindostan read and . 99 331 , last line , for Icthyopsis read Icthyophis ...
... Northern Asia | N. America . 99 245 , last line , insert in 2nd column ( 6 ) . 309 , line 20 , for Motacilla read Budytes . ,, 327 , 12 lines from foot , after Hindostan read and . 99 331 , last line , for Icthyopsis read Icthyophis ...
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... Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in Eastern Europe . The first series are examples of what are termed representative species , the second of distinct groups or types of ...
... Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in Eastern Europe . The first series are examples of what are termed representative species , the second of distinct groups or types of ...
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... northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit - eaters , their distribu- tion depends as much on vegetation as on ...
... northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit - eaters , their distribu- tion depends as much on vegetation as on ...
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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