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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... extended their migrations , owing to favourable conditions induced by human agency ; so we may presume that large num- bers of species would extend their range where favourable con- ditions arose through natural causes . If we go back ...
... extended their migrations , owing to favourable conditions induced by human agency ; so we may presume that large num- bers of species would extend their range where favourable con- ditions arose through natural causes . If we go back ...
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... extend in an unbroken line from the Hindu Koosh , through the Thian Shan , Altai and Yablonoi Mountains , to the Stanovoi range in the north - eastern extremity of Asia . South of this region is a great central basin , which is almost ...
... extend in an unbroken line from the Hindu Koosh , through the Thian Shan , Altai and Yablonoi Mountains , to the Stanovoi range in the north - eastern extremity of Asia . South of this region is a great central basin , which is almost ...
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... extending some degrees beyond it , and rising in a continuous mountain range till it meets and intercalates with the Man ... extend to an altitude of little less than 10,000 feet , that being the limit of the characteristic Timaliidæ or ...
... extending some degrees beyond it , and rising in a continuous mountain range till it meets and intercalates with the Man ... extend to an altitude of little less than 10,000 feet , that being the limit of the characteristic Timaliidæ or ...
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