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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Page 25
... Brazil and Guiana , and to have thence spread 66 1 Messrs . Sclater and Salvin , and Professor Newton , divide the Neotropical Region into six sub - regions , of which our Brazilian sub - region " comprises three - the " Brazilian ...
... Brazil and Guiana , and to have thence spread 66 1 Messrs . Sclater and Salvin , and Professor Newton , divide the Neotropical Region into six sub - regions , of which our Brazilian sub - region " comprises three - the " Brazilian ...
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... Brazil has Ptilochloris , Casiornis , Tijuca , Phibalura , and Calyptura ; while not a single genus of this family , except perhaps Heliochara , is confined to the extensive range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented ...
... Brazil has Ptilochloris , Casiornis , Tijuca , Phibalura , and Calyptura ; while not a single genus of this family , except perhaps Heliochara , is confined to the extensive range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented ...
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... Brazil and Guiana , and formed that enormous extent of fertile lowland forest , which has created a great continent ; given space for the free interaction of the distinct faunas which here met together , and thus greatly assisted in the ...
... Brazil and Guiana , and formed that enormous extent of fertile lowland forest , which has created a great continent ; given space for the free interaction of the distinct faunas which here met together , and thus greatly assisted in the ...
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... Brazil . Dolichotis , one of the Cavies , ranges from Patagonia to Mendoza , and on the east coast to 37 ° S. latitude . Myopotamus ( 1 sp . ) , the coypu ( Echimyidae ) , ranges from 33 ° to 48 ° S. latitude on the west side of the ...
... Brazil . Dolichotis , one of the Cavies , ranges from Patagonia to Mendoza , and on the east coast to 37 ° S. latitude . Myopotamus ( 1 sp . ) , the coypu ( Echimyidae ) , ranges from 33 ° to 48 ° S. latitude on the west side of the ...
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... Brazil ; and even among the wide - ranging aquatic birds , we have a peculiar genus , Merganetta , one of the duck family , which is confined to the temperate plateau of the Andes . ( ( Against this extensive series of characteristic ...
... Brazil ; and even among the wide - ranging aquatic birds , we have a peculiar genus , Merganetta , one of the duck family , which is confined to the temperate plateau of the Andes . ( ( Against this extensive series of characteristic ...
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