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 vii
... wholly unnoticed , while several families are only treated in combination with others , or are represented by some of the more important genera . In making these observations I by no means intend to criticise Mr. Murray's book , but ...
... wholly unnoticed , while several families are only treated in combination with others , or are represented by some of the more important genera . In making these observations I by no means intend to criticise Mr. Murray's book , but ...
Page 5
... wholly due to diversities of climate and of vegetation . There is indeed much to favour this belief . The arctic regions are strongly characterised by their white bears and foxes , their reindeer , ermine , and walruses , their white ...
... wholly due to diversities of climate and of vegetation . There is indeed much to favour this belief . The arctic regions are strongly characterised by their white bears and foxes , their reindeer , ermine , and walruses , their white ...
Page 24
... wholly confined to the east coast ; the birds of the high central plains and of California being for the most part sedentary , or only migrating for short distances . All the species which reach South America , and most of those which ...
... wholly confined to the east coast ; the birds of the high central plains and of California being for the most part sedentary , or only migrating for short distances . All the species which reach South America , and most of those which ...
Page 44
... wholly prevent the growth of trees ; and with the trees the numerous insects depen- dent on those trees , and the birds which fed upon the insects , must disappear , as well as the small mammalia which feed on the fruits , seeds ...
... wholly prevent the growth of trees ; and with the trees the numerous insects depen- dent on those trees , and the birds which fed upon the insects , must disappear , as well as the small mammalia which feed on the fruits , seeds ...
Page 63
... wholly South American in type , and the birds are almost all allied to forms characteristic of tropical America . For analogous reasons the Ethiopian must not be made to include any part of India or Ceylon ; for although the Fauna of ...
... wholly South American in type , and the birds are almost all allied to forms characteristic of tropical America . For analogous reasons the Ethiopian must not be made to include any part of India or Ceylon ; for although the Fauna of ...
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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