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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... tropical islands of New Guinea and Celebes , and in America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in Africa and ...
... tropical islands of New Guinea and Celebes , and in America from Chili to Virginia . No crows exist in South America , while they inhabit every other part of the world , not excepting Australia . Antelopes are found only in Africa and ...
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... tropical regions but do not range more than about 10 ° beyond the 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 ...
... tropical regions but do not range more than about 10 ° beyond the 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 ...
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... tropical forms are equally unfitted for the cold polar waters . The shore- feeding manatees , however , can only live where they find food ; and a long expanse of rocky coast would probably be as com- plete a barrier to them as a few ...
... tropical forms are equally unfitted for the cold polar waters . The shore- feeding manatees , however , can only live where they find food ; and a long expanse of rocky coast would probably be as com- plete a barrier to them as a few ...
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... tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland as far as the valley of the Amoor . North America . - The migrations of birds in North America have been carefully studied by resident naturalists , and present ...
... tropical forms travel northwards in summer to Japan , and on the mainland as far as the valley of the Amoor . North America . - The migrations of birds in North America have been carefully studied by resident naturalists , and present ...
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... tropical insects have been captured in the London docks , where they have been brought in foreign timber ; and some have emerged from furniture after remaining torpid for many years . Most insects have the power of existing weeks or ...
... tropical insects have been captured in the London docks , where they have been brought in foreign timber ; and some have emerged from furniture after remaining torpid for many years . Most insects have the power of existing weeks or ...
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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