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 216
... wide , is occupied by the Tundras or barrens , where nothing grows but mosses and the dwarfest Arctic plants , and where the ground is permanently frozen to a great depth . This tract has its greatest southern extension between the ...
... wide , is occupied by the Tundras or barrens , where nothing grows but mosses and the dwarfest Arctic plants , and where the ground is permanently frozen to a great depth . This tract has its greatest southern extension between the ...
Page 323
... Wide range . Wide range . Ethiopian and Oriental to Malaya . Out of the above 38 genera , 8 have so wide a distribution as to give no special geographical indications . Of the remaining 30 , whose geographical position we have noted ...
... Wide range . Wide range . Ethiopian and Oriental to Malaya . Out of the above 38 genera , 8 have so wide a distribution as to give no special geographical indications . Of the remaining 30 , whose geographical position we have noted ...
Page 418
... wide range , are found in New Guinea and were therefore probably derived thence . There remains a group of birds which are not found in New Guinea , and are either Palearctic or Oriental . These are 13 in number as follows : - 1 ...
... wide range , are found in New Guinea and were therefore probably derived thence . There remains a group of birds which are not found in New Guinea , and are either Palearctic or Oriental . These are 13 in number as follows : - 1 ...
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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