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 141
... Australian Neotropical Almost cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite Palearctic , Oriental , Andes All regions but Australian Pal¿arctic , Oriental , Australian Palearctic , Oriental ... regions . Range beyond. CHAP . XV . ] 141 THE NEARCTIC REGION .
... Australian Neotropical Almost cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite Palearctic , Oriental , Andes All regions but Australian Pal¿arctic , Oriental , Australian Palearctic , Oriental ... regions . Range beyond. CHAP . XV . ] 141 THE NEARCTIC REGION .
Page 159
... Australian region from the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere . Owing to the much greater extent of the old Palearctic region ( including our Oriental ) , and the greater diversity of Mammalia it appears to have produced , we can have. CHAP ...
... Australian region from the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere . Owing to the much greater extent of the old Palearctic region ( including our Oriental ) , and the greater diversity of Mammalia it appears to have produced , we can have. CHAP ...
Page 161
... Australian region alone , after having been united with the great northern continent at a very early date ( probably ... regions of the earth . We see , then , that each of our six regions has had a history of its own , the main outlines ...
... Australian region alone , after having been united with the great northern continent at a very early date ( probably ... regions of the earth . We see , then , that each of our six regions has had a history of its own , the main outlines ...
Page 172
... region . It is very curious that this species should somewhat resemble the ... AUSTRALIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS ... region in the east and west , and the Australian region as far as the islands of ...
... region . It is very curious that this species should somewhat resemble the ... AUSTRALIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS ... region in the east and west , and the Australian region as far as the islands of ...
Page 177
... Australian region ; but this island is altogether so anomalous that we can only consider its productions to have somewhat more affinity with the Australian than the Oriental region , but hardly to belong to either . The Tarsier is a ...
... Australian region ; but this island is altogether so anomalous that we can only consider its productions to have somewhat more affinity with the Australian than the Oriental region , but hardly to belong to either . The Tarsier is a ...
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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