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
... perhaps the most useful and generally interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great ...
... perhaps the most useful and generally interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great ...
Page xi
... perhaps in other respects for the better , as it naturally follows Part II . Yet for persons not well acquainted with zoology , it will per- haps be advisable to read the more important articles of Part IV . ( and especially the ...
... perhaps in other respects for the better , as it naturally follows Part II . Yet for persons not well acquainted with zoology , it will per- haps be advisable to read the more important articles of Part IV . ( and especially the ...
Page xv
... perhaps overburthened with some kinds of detail , yet leaves many points most inadequately treated . It is therefore with some hesitation that I venture to express the hope that I have made some approach to the standard of excellence I ...
... perhaps overburthened with some kinds of detail , yet leaves many points most inadequately treated . It is therefore with some hesitation that I venture to express the hope that I have made some approach to the standard of excellence I ...
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... perhaps to have depended on , changes of physical geography , of climate , or of vegetation ; since it is evident that an animal which is well adapted to one condition of things will require to be slightly changed in con- stitution or ...
... perhaps to have depended on , changes of physical geography , of climate , or of vegetation ; since it is evident that an animal which is well adapted to one condition of things will require to be slightly changed in con- stitution or ...
Page 16
... perhaps even inferior to them ; since , although they are able to cross rivers by swimming , it is doubtful if they could remain so long in the water as most land quadrupeds . A very large number of short - winged birds , such as ...
... perhaps even inferior to them ; since , although they are able to cross rivers by swimming , it is doubtful if they could remain so long in the water as most land quadrupeds . A very large number of short - winged birds , such as ...
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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