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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... REGION . Zoological Characteristics of the Palearctic Region ( p . 181 ) -Summary of Palæ- arctic Vertebrata ( p . 186 ) -Insects ( p . 187 ) -Land - shells ( p . 190 ) -The Palæ- arctic Sub - regions ( p . 190 ) -Central and Northern ...
... REGION . Zoological Characteristics of the Palearctic Region ( p . 181 ) -Summary of Palæ- arctic Vertebrata ( p . 186 ) -Insects ( p . 187 ) -Land - shells ( p . 190 ) -The Palæ- arctic Sub - regions ( p . 190 ) -Central and Northern ...
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... Sub - region ( p . 333 ) —Indo - Malaya , or the Malayan Sub - region ( p . 334 ) -Malayan Insects ( p . 341 ) -The Zoological Relations of the several Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) ...
... Sub - region ( p . 333 ) —Indo - Malaya , or the Malayan Sub - region ( p . 334 ) -Malayan Insects ( p . 341 ) -The Zoological Relations of the several Islands of the Indo - Malay Sub - region ( p . 345 ) -Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) ...
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... sub - division . Con- sidering that most of these terms have been used in ... region " was employed for the primary divisions by Mr. Sclater , eighteen ... sub - divisions of the regions no advantage is gained by the use of a distinct ...
... sub - division . Con- sidering that most of these terms have been used in ... region " was employed for the primary divisions by Mr. Sclater , eighteen ... sub - divisions of the regions no advantage is gained by the use of a distinct ...
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... regions adopted in the present work , together with the sub - regions into which they may be most eonveniently and naturally divided , as shown in our general map . Palearctic Region . - This very extensive region comprises all ...
... regions adopted in the present work , together with the sub - regions into which they may be most eonveniently and naturally divided , as shown in our general map . Palearctic Region . - This very extensive region comprises all ...
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... regions , and they are adopted more for convenience than because they are very natural or strongly marked . The first , or European sub - region , comprises Central and Northern Europe as far South as the Pyrenees , the Maritime and ...
... regions , and they are adopted more for convenience than because they are very natural or strongly marked . The first , or European sub - region , comprises Central and Northern Europe as far South as the Pyrenees , the Maritime and ...
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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