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 15
... Jamaica of Honduras ston Mosquito Coast Blewfieldy Chiriqui G.of Panama L. agres Gof 10 10 20 30 40 Popas Guaria Galapagos Albemarle Charles Is . Eameraldas Cott ado Chatham Chimbor G. of Gayaqu Truxillo Essequibo 30 20 10 Obidos betas ...
... Jamaica of Honduras ston Mosquito Coast Blewfieldy Chiriqui G.of Panama L. agres Gof 10 10 20 30 40 Popas Guaria Galapagos Albemarle Charles Is . Eameraldas Cott ado Chatham Chimbor G. of Gayaqu Truxillo Essequibo 30 20 10 Obidos betas ...
Page 61
... Jamaica and Portorico ; and a chain of much smaller islands , St. Croix , Anguilla , Barbuda , Antigua , Guadeloupe , Dominica , Martinique , St. Lucia , St. Vincent , Barbadoes , and Grenada , with a host of intervening islets . Tobago ...
... Jamaica and Portorico ; and a chain of much smaller islands , St. Croix , Anguilla , Barbuda , Antigua , Guadeloupe , Dominica , Martinique , St. Lucia , St. Vincent , Barbadoes , and Grenada , with a host of intervening islets . Tobago ...
Page 62
... Jamaica , the depth between them being 600 fathoms . Between Portorico and Hayti there is only 250 fathoms ; while close to the south of all these islands the sea is enormously deep , from more than 1,000 fathoms south of Cuba and Jamaica ...
... Jamaica , the depth between them being 600 fathoms . Between Portorico and Hayti there is only 250 fathoms ; while close to the south of all these islands the sea is enormously deep , from more than 1,000 fathoms south of Cuba and Jamaica ...
Page 63
... Jamaica . The Insectivora are represented by the genus Solenodon , of which two species are known , one inhabiting Cuba the other Hayti . These are small animals about the size of a cat , with long shrew - like snout , bare rat - like ...
... Jamaica . The Insectivora are represented by the genus Solenodon , of which two species are known , one inhabiting Cuba the other Hayti . These are small animals about the size of a cat , with long shrew - like snout , bare rat - like ...
Page 65
... Jamaica only ; 2 of owls , one peculiar to Jamaica , the other represented in St. Croix , St. Thomas , Portorico , and Cuba ; and lastly , Todus , constituting a peculiar family , and having repre- sentative species in each of the ...
... Jamaica only ; 2 of owls , one peculiar to Jamaica , the other represented in St. Croix , St. Thomas , Portorico , and Cuba ; and lastly , Todus , constituting a peculiar family , and having repre- sentative species in each of the ...
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