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. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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... Antilles of the Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan finds to be more allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to ...
... Antilles of the Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan finds to be more allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to ...
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... Antilles into Columbia , some of these being only winter immigrants and no genus being exclusively South American . The eastern slopes of the Andes constitute , however , the richest and best marked province of this sub - region . At ...
... Antilles into Columbia , some of these being only winter immigrants and no genus being exclusively South American . The eastern slopes of the Andes constitute , however , the richest and best marked province of this sub - region . At ...
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... Antilles , and the northern parts of a tropical America , only one species extending south as. 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his ...
... Antilles , and the northern parts of a tropical America , only one species extending south as. 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his ...
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... Antilles and Madagascar - both areas strikingly deficient in the higher vertebrate forms . The probable mode and time of the cross migration between Australia and South America , has been sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the ...
... Antilles and Madagascar - both areas strikingly deficient in the higher vertebrate forms . The probable mode and time of the cross migration between Australia and South America , has been sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the ...
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... Antilles . Relations of the Mexican sub - region to the North and South American Continents . - The sudden appearance of numerous South American forms of Edentata in temperate North America , in Post - Tertiary times , as narrated in ...
... Antilles . Relations of the Mexican sub - region to the North and South American Continents . - The sudden appearance of numerous South American forms of Edentata in temperate North America , in Post - Tertiary times , as narrated in ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand