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 37
... Chili , and the guanaco which ranges over the plains of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego . Although this genus is ... Chili and on the east side of the southern Andes ; Octodon ( 3 sp . ) ranges from Chili into Peru and Bolivia ; Ctenomys ...
... Chili , and the guanaco which ranges over the plains of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego . Although this genus is ... Chili and on the east side of the southern Andes ; Octodon ( 3 sp . ) ranges from Chili into Peru and Bolivia ; Ctenomys ...
Page 38
... Chili , La Plata , and Bolivia ; Chionididæ ( 1 genus , 2 sp . ) the " sheath - bills , " found only at the southern ... Chili ; two of pigeons ( Metriopelia and Gymnopelia ) confined to the Andes and west coast from Peru to Chili ; two ...
... Chili , La Plata , and Bolivia ; Chionididæ ( 1 genus , 2 sp . ) the " sheath - bills , " found only at the southern ... Chili ; two of pigeons ( Metriopelia and Gymnopelia ) confined to the Andes and west coast from Peru to Chili ; two ...
Page 39
... Chili and the Falkland Islands , but these , Professor Newton assures me , do not properly belong to the same genus . Out of 30 genera of land - birds collected on the Rio Negro in Patagonia , by Mr. Hudson , only four extend beyond the ...
... Chili and the Falkland Islands , but these , Professor Newton assures me , do not properly belong to the same genus . Out of 30 genera of land - birds collected on the Rio Negro in Patagonia , by Mr. Hudson , only four extend beyond the ...
Page 40
... Chili , with characteristic Animals . - The fauna of South Temperate America being most fully developed in Chili , we place the scene of our illustration in that country . In the foreground we have a pair of the beautiful little ...
... Chili , with characteristic Animals . - The fauna of South Temperate America being most fully developed in Chili , we place the scene of our illustration in that country . In the foreground we have a pair of the beautiful little ...
Page 42
... Chili ; and Percichthys , also belonging to the perch family , has five species confined to the fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ; Trichomycterus reaches ...
... Chili ; and Percichthys , also belonging to the perch family , has five species confined to the fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ; Trichomycterus reaches ...
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