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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... probably few artists who would have succeeded better than Mr. Zwecker has done . The general arrangement of the separate parts of which the work is composed , has been , to some extent , determined by the illustrations and maps , which ...
... probably few artists who would have succeeded better than Mr. Zwecker has done . The general arrangement of the separate parts of which the work is composed , has been , to some extent , determined by the illustrations and maps , which ...
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... gordian knot of each difficulty by vast hypothetical changes in existing continents and oceans -probably the most permanent features of our globe . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS CHAP . I. ] 9 INTRODUCTORY .
... gordian knot of each difficulty by vast hypothetical changes in existing continents and oceans -probably the most permanent features of our globe . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS CHAP . I. ] 9 INTRODUCTORY .
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... probably limited by other conditions than temperature . We must not therefore be too hasty in concluding , that animals which we now see confined to a very hot or a very cold climate are incapable of living in any other . The tiger was ...
... probably limited by other conditions than temperature . We must not therefore be too hasty in concluding , that animals which we now see confined to a very hot or a very cold climate are incapable of living in any other . The tiger was ...
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... probably be as com- plete a barrier to them as a few hundred miles of open ocean . The amphibious seals and walruses seem many of them to be capable of making long sea journeys , some of the species being found on islands a thousand ...
... probably be as com- plete a barrier to them as a few hundred miles of open ocean . The amphibious seals and walruses seem many of them to be capable of making long sea journeys , some of the species being found on islands a thousand ...
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... probably , have reached the islands before the Atlantic was a commercial highway . Barriers to the Dispersal of Birds . - We have seen that , as a rule , wide oceans are an almost absolute barrier to the passage of most birds from one ...
... probably , have reached the islands before the Atlantic was a commercial highway . Barriers to the Dispersal of Birds . - We have seen that , as a rule , wide oceans are an almost absolute barrier to the passage of most birds from one ...
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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