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. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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Page 30
... Antilles , and the northern parts of 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his valuable paper in the Transactions of the Zoological ...
... Antilles , and the northern parts of 1 Mr. Salvin , who has critically examined the ornithological fauna of these islands , has kindly corrected my MS . List of the Birds , his valuable paper in the Transactions of the Zoological ...
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... Antilles , Brazil , and Peru . Of the peculiar genera , the largest , Dactylozodes ( 26 sp . ) , has one species in South Brazil , and is closely allied to Hyperantha , a genus of Tropical America ; Epistomentis is allied to Nascis , an ...
... Antilles , Brazil , and Peru . Of the peculiar genera , the largest , Dactylozodes ( 26 sp . ) , has one species in South Brazil , and is closely allied to Hyperantha , a genus of Tropical America ; Epistomentis is allied to Nascis , an ...
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... Antilles . The majority of the genera range over the whole sub - region from Panama to Mexico , but there are a considerable number , comprising many of the most characteristic South American forms , which do not pass north of Costa ...
... Antilles . The majority of the genera range over the whole sub - region from Panama to Mexico , but there are a considerable number , comprising many of the most characteristic South American forms , which do not pass north of Costa ...
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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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... Antilles . All the larger islands , and most of the smaller ones ( except those of coral formation ) are very mountainous and rocky , the chains rising to about 8,000 feet in Hayti and Jamaica , and to nearly the same height in Cuba ...
... Antilles . All the larger islands , and most of the smaller ones ( except those of coral formation ) are very mountainous and rocky , the chains rising to about 8,000 feet in Hayti and Jamaica , and to nearly the same height in Cuba ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti 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 Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate 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