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 66
... Jamaica 81 , Portorico 1 , Lesser Antilles 33. These figures show us , that although Jamaica is one of the smaller and the most isolated of the four chief islands , it yet stands in the first rank , both for the number of its species ...
... Jamaica 81 , Portorico 1 , Lesser Antilles 33. These figures show us , that although Jamaica is one of the smaller and the most isolated of the four chief islands , it yet stands in the first rank , both for the number of its species ...
Page 67
... Jamaica is rather greater than shown by our figures . The destruction of the forests and the increase of population , with , perhaps , the use of firearms , seem to have led to the extermination of some species of birds in the smaller ...
... Jamaica is rather greater than shown by our figures . The destruction of the forests and the increase of population , with , perhaps , the use of firearms , seem to have led to the extermination of some species of birds in the smaller ...
Page 67
... Jamaica is rather greater than shown by our figures . The destruction of the forests and the increase of population , with , perhaps , the use of firearms , seem to have led to the extermination of some species of birds in the smaller ...
... Jamaica is rather greater than shown by our figures . The destruction of the forests and the increase of population , with , perhaps , the use of firearms , seem to have led to the extermination of some species of birds in the smaller ...
Page 68
... Jamaica . Portorico & St. Croix . tilles . Lesser An- species . Total resident Remarks . TURDIDE . Turdus Mimocichla Margarops Rhamphocinclus Cinclocerthia ... Mimus SYLVIIDE . Myiadestes Polioptila 2 Tall- 1 1 T 1 154183 110101 ། | ཎྜ ...
... Jamaica . Portorico & St. Croix . tilles . Lesser An- species . Total resident Remarks . TURDIDE . Turdus Mimocichla Margarops Rhamphocinclus Cinclocerthia ... Mimus SYLVIIDE . Myiadestes Polioptila 2 Tall- 1 1 T 1 154183 110101 ། | ཎྜ ...
Page 69
... Jamaica . Vireosylvia ... 1 Vireo ... Laletes ... 1 Phoenicomanes CORVIDE . -111 1-11 Corvus ... 1 Cyanocorax MNIOTILTIDE . 122 1 1 la 1 「 ས་ 11- Perissoglossa ... Dendroca Teretristis CEREBIDE Certhiola Glossiptila Cœreba ... AMPELIDE ...
... Jamaica . Vireosylvia ... 1 Vireo ... Laletes ... 1 Phoenicomanes CORVIDE . -111 1-11 Corvus ... 1 Cyanocorax MNIOTILTIDE . 122 1 1 la 1 「 ས་ 11- Perissoglossa ... Dendroca Teretristis CEREBIDE Certhiola Glossiptila Cœreba ... AMPELIDE ...
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