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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... mountains . It was , no doubt , during their slow elevation and the consequent loosening of the surface , that the vast masses of debris were carried down which filled up the sea separating the Andean chain from the great islands of ...
... mountains . It was , no doubt , during their slow elevation and the consequent loosening of the surface , that the vast masses of debris were carried down which filled up the sea separating the Andean chain from the great islands of ...
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... mountain , are a herd of vicunas ( Auchenia vicugna ) , one of that peculiar form of the camel tribe found in South America and confined to its temperate and alpine regions . The upper bird is a plant - cutter ( Phytotoma rara ) , of ...
... mountain , are a herd of vicunas ( Auchenia vicugna ) , one of that peculiar form of the camel tribe found in South America and confined to its temperate and alpine regions . The upper bird is a plant - cutter ( Phytotoma rara ) , of ...
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... mountain range to South Temperate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly in this respect ; and there are some ...
... mountain range to South Temperate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly in this respect ; and there are some ...
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... mountain range to South Tem- perate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly in this respect ; and there are ...
... mountain range to South Tem- perate America , where they have established themselves as a prominent feature in the entomology of the country . The several orders and families , however , differ greatly in this respect ; and there are ...
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... mountains , would enable them rapidly to extend into any newly - raised land suitable to them ; and thus the whole range of the Rocky Mountains and Andes would obtain a population of northern forms , which would over- flow into ...
... mountains , would enable them rapidly to extend into any newly - raised land suitable to them ; and thus the whole range of the Rocky Mountains and Andes would obtain a population of northern forms , which would over- flow into ...
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