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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... Southern Europe fresh warblers and unfamiliar buntings . We meet also with totally new forms ; as the glutton and the snowy owl in Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in ...
... Southern Europe fresh warblers and unfamiliar buntings . We meet also with totally new forms ; as the glutton and the snowy owl in Northern , the genet and the hoopoe in Southern , and the saiga antelope and collared pratincole in ...
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... southern and 12 ° beyond the northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit - eaters , their distribu- tion depends as ...
... southern and 12 ° beyond the northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit - eaters , their distribu- tion depends as ...
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... north than York- shire . It spreads over Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern Russia and the wariner parts of Siberia , but it nevertheless breeds in the Jordan Valley , so CHAP . II . ] 21 BIRDS .
... north than York- shire . It spreads over Central Europe , through Austria and Hungary to Southern Russia and the wariner parts of Siberia , but it nevertheless breeds in the Jordan Valley , so CHAP . II . ] 21 BIRDS .
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... southern India and Ceylon comparatively few of these migratory birds appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally the coast line , coming southwards in winter from eastern Siberia and northern Japan ; while a few purely ...
... southern India and Ceylon comparatively few of these migratory birds appear . In China the migratory birds follow generally the coast line , coming southwards in winter from eastern Siberia and northern Japan ; while a few purely ...
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... Southern States . Even in the extreme north , beyond the limit of forests , there are no less than 60 species which breed ; in Canada about 160 ; while in Carolina there are only 135 , and in Louisiana , 130. The extent of the migration ...
... Southern States . Even in the extreme north , beyond the limit of forests , there are no less than 60 species which breed ; in Canada about 160 ; while in Carolina there are only 135 , and in Louisiana , 130. The extent of the migration ...
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