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 - 503 pages |
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Page xix
... Remains of the Secondary Formations ( p . 159 ) -Extinct Birds ( p . 160 ) -Palearctic Region and North India ( p . 161 ) -North America ( p . 163 ) —South America , Madagascar , New Zealand ( p . 164 ) -Extinct Tertiary Reptiles ( p ...
... Remains of the Secondary Formations ( p . 159 ) -Extinct Birds ( p . 160 ) -Palearctic Region and North India ( p . 161 ) -North America ( p . 163 ) —South America , Madagascar , New Zealand ( p . 164 ) -Extinct Tertiary Reptiles ( p ...
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... remains all the winter . Some resident birds also move in winter to districts where they are never seen in summer . General Remarks on Migration . - The preceding summary of the main facts of migration ( which might have been almost in ...
... remains all the winter . Some resident birds also move in winter to districts where they are never seen in summer . General Remarks on Migration . - The preceding summary of the main facts of migration ( which might have been almost in ...
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... remains of the living African elephant have been found by Baron Anca ; and in other caves Dr. Falconer discovered remains of the Elephas antiquus and of two species of Hippopotamus . In Malta , three species of elephant have been ...
... remains of the living African elephant have been found by Baron Anca ; and in other caves Dr. Falconer discovered remains of the Elephas antiquus and of two species of Hippopotamus . In Malta , three species of elephant have been ...
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... remains . Both the plants and animals of the Miocene period indicate that the climate of Central Europe was decidedly warmer or more equa- ble than it is now ; since the flora closely resembled that of the Southern United States , with ...
... remains . Both the plants and animals of the Miocene period indicate that the climate of Central Europe was decidedly warmer or more equa- ble than it is now ; since the flora closely resembled that of the Southern United States , with ...
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... remains , which is subjected again and again to the same process . To decide these various points it seems advisable that con- venience , intelligibility , and custom , should largely guide us . The first essential is , a broadly marked ...
... remains , which is subjected again and again to the same process . To decide these various points it seems advisable that con- venience , intelligibility , and custom , should largely guide us . The first essential is , a broadly marked ...
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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 hy¿nas 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