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 59
... resemblance to each other than any one of them has to Australia or to South America ; and he further suggests that New Zealand alone has peculiarities which might entitle it to rank as a primary region along with Australasia and South ...
... resemblance to each other than any one of them has to Australia or to South America ; and he further suggests that New Zealand alone has peculiarities which might entitle it to rank as a primary region along with Australasia and South ...
Page 63
... resemblance of the fauna of Chili and Patagonia to that of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was much greater than it is , this mode of dealing with it would be objectionable ; but it is still more so , when we find that these ...
... resemblance of the fauna of Chili and Patagonia to that of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was much greater than it is , this mode of dealing with it would be objectionable ; but it is still more so , when we find that these ...
Page 73
... resemblance , not to be wondered at between two tropical regions in the same hemisphere , and which have evidently been at one time more nearly connected , both by intervening lands and by a different condition of the lands that even ...
... resemblance , not to be wondered at between two tropical regions in the same hemisphere , and which have evidently been at one time more nearly connected , both by intervening lands and by a different condition of the lands that even ...
Page 83
... resemblance to each other , and are usually considered to be really allied ; and let us suppose that a and b inhabit the same or adjacent districts , while c is found far away on the other side of the globe , with no animals at all ...
... resemblance to each other , and are usually considered to be really allied ; and let us suppose that a and b inhabit the same or adjacent districts , while c is found far away on the other side of the globe , with no animals at all ...
Page 116
... resemblance that appeared in the Pliocene fauna of Europe , to that of the open country of tropical Africa , is now still more remarkable . We not only find great felines , surpassing in size and 116 [ PART II . DISTRIBUTION OF EXTINCT ...
... resemblance that appeared in the Pliocene fauna of Europe , to that of the open country of tropical Africa , is now still more remarkable . We not only find great felines , surpassing in size and 116 [ PART II . DISTRIBUTION OF EXTINCT ...
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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