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, 2. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 40
... belong to genera which are wholly Neotropical , and that the specially South American families of Icterida , Tyrannidæ , Den- drocolaptidæ , Pteroptochida , Trochilidæ , and Conuridæ , should supply more than one - third of the species ...
... belong to genera which are wholly Neotropical , and that the specially South American families of Icterida , Tyrannidæ , Den- drocolaptidæ , Pteroptochida , Trochilidæ , and Conuridæ , should supply more than one - third of the species ...
Page 177
... belong to either . The Tarsier is a small , long - tailed , nocturnal animal , of curious structure and appearance ; and it forms the only link of connection with the next family , which it resembles in the extraordinary development of ...
... belong to either . The Tarsier is a small , long - tailed , nocturnal animal , of curious structure and appearance ; and it forms the only link of connection with the next family , which it resembles in the extraordinary development of ...
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... belong to the Canidæ . Amphicyon abounded in the Miocene period , both in Europe and North America ; and some of the species were as large as a tiger . Other extinct genera are , Cynodictis , Cyotherium , and Galethylax , from the ...
... belong to the Canidæ . Amphicyon abounded in the Miocene period , both in Europe and North America ; and some of the species were as large as a tiger . Other extinct genera are , Cynodictis , Cyotherium , and Galethylax , from the ...
Contents
General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region p 5Distinctive Charac | 15 |
Past History of the Neotropical Region p 80Table I Families of Animals | 91 |
THE NEARCTIC REGION | 113 |
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