 ... wonderful aye-aye (Chiromys) , the insectivorous Centetidae, and carnivorous Cryptoprocta, among the Mammalia. They speak to us plainly of enormous antiquity, of long-continued isolation, and not less plainly of a lost continent or continental island,...  THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS - Page 278by ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1882 - 746 lehte
...plainly of a lost continent or continental island in which so many, and various, and highly organised creatures could have been gradually developed in a connected fauna of which we have here but "Wallace's line" — which passes through a narrow but extremely deep channel — the Straits of Lombok... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 602 lehte
...found ; and they fitly associate with the wonderful aye -aye (CMromys), the insectivorous Centetidae, and carnivorous Cryptoprocta among the Mammalia. They...represented the nocturnal and extraordinary aye-aye (Chiromys madayascariensis) to illustrate its peculiar and probably very ancient mammalian fauna ;... | |
 | 1882 - 876 lehte
...plainly of a lost continent or continental island in which so many, and various, and highly organised creatures could have been gradually developed in a...of which we have here but the fragmentary remains." "Wallace's line"—which passes through a narrow but extremely deep channel—the Straits of Lombok—running... | |
 | 1885 - 572 lehte
...found ; and they fitly associate with the wonderful aye-aye (Chiromys) , the insectivorous Centetidae, and carnivorous Cryptoprocta, among the Mammalia....represented the nocturnal and extraordinary aye-aye (Chiromys Madagascar iensis) to illustrate its peculiar, and probably very ancient, mammalian fauna... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1887 - 382 lehte
...continental island in which so many, and various, and highly-organised creatures could have been L 2 gradually developed in a connected fauna of which we have here but the fragmentary remains." The Oriental region, formerly known as the " Indian" region, possesses boundaries of highly interesting... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1891 - 616 lehte
...continental island [or archipelago of large islands], in which so many, and various, and peculiarly organised creatures could have been gradually developed in a...of which we have here but the fragmentary remains". Madagascar possesses a considerable number of genera and species of birds peculiar to itself; 35 genera... | |
 | 1889 - 564 lehte
...isolation, and not less plainly of a lost. .. .continental island [or archipelago of large islands], in which so many, and various, and peculiarly organized...of which we have here but the fragmentary remains." Many lists of Madagascar Birds have been published by travellers and naturalists. Flacourt, in his... | |
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