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 , are bound together by a series of complex relations ; so that the increase , diminution , or extermination of any one , may set in motion a series of actions and reactions more or less affecting a large portion of the whole ...
... region , are bound together by a series of complex relations ; so that the increase , diminution , or extermination of any one , may set in motion a series of actions and reactions more or less affecting a large portion of the whole ...
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... region of Mr. Sclater , extended to include the Sahara and Nubia ; 2nd . the Indo - African region , including the ... whole of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions of Mr. Sclater along with the West Indies , Central America , the whole ...
... region of Mr. Sclater , extended to include the Sahara and Nubia ; 2nd . the Indo - African region , including the ... whole of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions of Mr. Sclater along with the West Indies , Central America , the whole ...
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... region is less rich and diversified in its forms of mam- malian life than ... regions , and they would become as strongly differentiated from all other regions ... whole , very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere ; and to refuse to ...
... region is less rich and diversified in its forms of mam- malian life than ... regions , and they would become as strongly differentiated from all other regions ... whole , very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere ; and to refuse to ...
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... region is , on the whole , fully as well defined as the Palæarctic , by posi- tive characters which differentiate it from both the adjacent regions . More evidence in the same direction will be found in the Second Part of this work , in ...
... region is , on the whole , fully as well defined as the Palæarctic , by posi- tive characters which differentiate it from both the adjacent regions . More evidence in the same direction will be found in the Second Part of this work , in ...
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... whole subject is far better known and its first principles agreed upon , the simpler and the fewer the terms employed the better ; and as " region " was employed for the primary divisions by Mr. Sclater , eighteen years ago , and again ...
... whole subject is far better known and its first principles agreed upon , the simpler and the fewer the terms employed the better ; and as " region " was employed for the primary divisions by Mr. Sclater , eighteen years ago , and again ...
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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