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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... Australian Region ( p . 390 ) —Summary of the Australian Vertebrata ( p . 397 ) -Supposed Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p ...
... Australian Region ( p . 390 ) —Summary of the Australian Vertebrata ( p . 397 ) -Supposed Land - connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p ...
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... and causes of the phenomena presented by the geographical distribution of ... regions are strongly characterised by their white bears and foxes , their ... Australia are wonderfully similar in their soil and climate ; yet one has lions ...
... and causes of the phenomena presented by the geographical distribution of ... regions are strongly characterised by their white bears and foxes , their ... Australia are wonderfully similar in their soil and climate ; yet one has lions ...
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... but most of the species are confined to one or other of the great oceans , or to the arctic or antarctic seas , a ... regions and migrate as far as India and Australia , or down to Chili and Brazil ; the species of the old and new worlds ...
... but most of the species are confined to one or other of the great oceans , or to the arctic or antarctic seas , a ... regions and migrate as far as India and Australia , or down to Chili and Brazil ; the species of the old and new worlds ...
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... and have left their débris in the form of huge mountainous moraines , in ... Australia . Many of the shells were of tropical genera ; and there were numbers of ... regions , and allowed a magnificent vegetation of shrubs and forest trees ...
... and have left their débris in the form of huge mountainous moraines , in ... Australia . Many of the shells were of tropical genera ; and there were numbers of ... regions , and allowed a magnificent vegetation of shrubs and forest trees ...
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... Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia ... but not so well with that of mammalia or reptiles . Professor Huxley points out that the Nearctic , Palearctic ... and that a CHAP . IV . ] 59 ZOOLOGICAL REGIONS .
... Australian Region ; including Celebes and Lombock , eastward to Australia ... but not so well with that of mammalia or reptiles . Professor Huxley points out that the Nearctic , Palearctic ... and that a CHAP . IV . ] 59 ZOOLOGICAL REGIONS .
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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