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. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 13
... doubt the same barriers also limit a large number of other species . Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals . - Very few mammals can swim over any considerable extent of sea , although many can swim well for short distances . The jaguar ...
... doubt the same barriers also limit a large number of other species . Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals . - Very few mammals can swim over any considerable extent of sea , although many can swim well for short distances . The jaguar ...
Page 410
... doubt.1 Omitting bats , of which our knowledge is very imperfect , the Papuan Mammals are as follows : - Family . Suida ... Genus . Sus Murida Dasyurida " " 99 99 ... ... ... ... Peramelidæ Species . 1 Eastern limit of the genus ...
... doubt.1 Omitting bats , of which our knowledge is very imperfect , the Papuan Mammals are as follows : - Family . Suida ... Genus . Sus Murida Dasyurida " " 99 99 ... ... ... ... Peramelidæ Species . 1 Eastern limit of the genus ...
Page 450
... doubt far from complete , is sufficiently ample ; and it will be well to give a pretty full account of it , in order to see what conclusions may be drawn as to its origin . Mammalia . - The only mammals positively known as indi- genous ...
... doubt far from complete , is sufficiently ample ; and it will be well to give a pretty full account of it , in order to see what conclusions may be drawn as to its origin . Mammalia . - The only mammals positively known as indi- genous ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles 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 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 region Papuan 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