 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 586 lehte
...This insular sub-region is one of the most remarkable zoological districts on the globe, bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical...Seychelles and Comoro islands. Madagascar itself is an island of the first class, being a thousand miles long and about 250 miles in average width. It lies... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 602 lehte
...This insular sub-region is one of the most remarkable zoological districts on the globe, bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical...Madagascar, the islands of Mauritius, Bourbon, and Eodriguez, the Seychelles and Comoro islands. Madagascar itself is an island of the first class, being... | |
 | ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876 - 566 lehte
...This insular sub-region is one of the most remarkable zoological districts on the globe, bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical...Madagascar, the islands of Mauritius, Bourbon, and Bodriguez, the Seychelles and Comoro islands. Madagascar itself is an island of the first class, being... | |
 | James Sibree - 1880 - 416 lehte
...studied it to be one of the most remarkable districts on the globe, bearing, says Mr. Alfred Wallace, " a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical...respects a more remarkable one even than New Zealand." The Madagascar fauna is very deficient in the number of the orders and families of mammalia, but some... | |
 | James Sibree - 1896 - 436 lehte
...it to be one of the most remarkable districts on the globe, bearing, says Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, " a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to Tropical...some respects a more remarkable one even than New Zealand.1 The Madagascar fauna is very deficient in many of the orders and families of the mammalia,... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1896 - 422 lehte
...the mammalian fauna, but likewise by many other groups of animals. To quote Dr Wallace, this region "comprises, besides Madagascar, the islands of Mauritius,...Seychelles, and Comoro Islands. Madagascar itself is an island of the first class, being a thousand miles long, and about two hundred and fifty miles in average... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1896 - 426 lehte
...the mammalian fauna, but likewise by many other groups of animals. To quote Dr Wallace, this region "comprises, besides Madagascar, the islands of Mauritius,...Seychelles, and Comoro Islands. Madagascar itself is an island of the first class, being a thousand miles long, and about two hundred and fifty miles in average... | |
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This insular sub-region is one of the most remarkable zoological districts on the globe, bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical America, or New Zealand to Australia, but possessing a much richer fauna than either of these, and... 