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 202
... Ceylon ; and Tremarctos , the spectacled bear - com- monly known as Ursus ornatus - which is isolated in the Andes of Peru and Chili , and forms a distinct group . Fossil Ursidae . - Two bears ( Ursus spelaus and U. priscus ) closely ...
... Ceylon ; and Tremarctos , the spectacled bear - com- monly known as Ursus ornatus - which is isolated in the Andes of Peru and Chili , and forms a distinct group . Fossil Ursidae . - Two bears ( Ursus spelaus and U. priscus ) closely ...
Page 210
... Ceylon , the Malay Archipelago and the north coast of Australia . Rytina ( 1 species ) , supposed to be now extinct , inhabited re- cently the North Pacific , between Kamschatka and Eehring's Straits . Fossil Sirenia . - Extinct species ...
... Ceylon , the Malay Archipelago and the north coast of Australia . Rytina ( 1 species ) , supposed to be now extinct , inhabited re- cently the North Pacific , between Kamschatka and Eehring's Straits . Fossil Sirenia . - Extinct species ...
Page 218
... Ceylon , and through Assam , Malacca , and Cam- bodja , to Sumatra , Borneo , and Java ( Plate VIII . , vol . i . p . 337 ) . Hyomoschus ( 1 species ) , is found in West Africa . Extinct Tragulida . - A species of Hyomoschus is said to ...
... Ceylon , and through Assam , Malacca , and Cam- bodja , to Sumatra , Borneo , and Java ( Plate VIII . , vol . i . p . 337 ) . Hyomoschus ( 1 species ) , is found in West Africa . Extinct Tragulida . - A species of Hyomoschus is said to ...
Page 219
... Ceylon to China as far north as Ningpo and Formosa , also south- ward to the Philippines , Borneo , and Java . Moschus ( 1 species ) the musk - deer , inhabits Central Asia from the Amoor and Pekin , to the Himalayas and the Siamese ...
... Ceylon to China as far north as Ningpo and Formosa , also south- ward to the Philippines , Borneo , and Java . Moschus ( 1 species ) the musk - deer , inhabits Central Asia from the Amoor and Pekin , to the Himalayas and the Siamese ...
Page 232
... Ceylon ; Pedetes ( 1 sp . ) , South Africa to Mozambique and Angola ; Jaculus Meriones ( 1 sp . ) , North America , from Nova Scotia and Canada , south to Pennsylvania and west to California and British Columbia ( Plate XX . , vol . ii ...
... Ceylon ; Pedetes ( 1 sp . ) , South Africa to Mozambique and Angola ; Jaculus Meriones ( 1 sp . ) , North America , from Nova Scotia and Canada , south to Pennsylvania and west to California and British Columbia ( Plate XX . , vol . ii ...
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