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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... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. States . Important and characteristic genera are , Glandina , in all the tropical ... Old World slugs , are absent from the region , their place being taken by the allied family , Oncidiadæ . Marine ...
... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. States . Important and characteristic genera are , Glandina , in all the tropical ... Old World slugs , are absent from the region , their place being taken by the allied family , Oncidiadæ . Marine ...
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... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. although recognizing the fact of its zoological and geographical diversity , as ... Old World . There are about a dozen species of these fine birds , most of which are adorned with handsome curled ...
... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. although recognizing the fact of its zoological and geographical diversity , as ... Old World . There are about a dozen species of these fine birds , most of which are adorned with handsome curled ...
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... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. ፡፡ from 11,000 to 16,000 feet altitude ; and Lagostomus ( 1 sp . ) , the ... Old World camels , it is a very distinct form , and its introduction from North America , where the family appear to ...
... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. ፡፡ from 11,000 to 16,000 feet altitude ; and Lagostomus ( 1 sp . ) , the ... Old World camels , it is a very distinct form , and its introduction from North America , where the family appear to ...
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... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. * Pseudalopex ( two wolf - like foxes ) , Felis ( the puma ) , Mephitis ... Old World families , and therefore implying great antiquity , we find , in mammalia and birds , very scanty evidence ...
... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. * Pseudalopex ( two wolf - like foxes ) , Felis ( the puma ) , Mephitis ... Old World families , and therefore implying great antiquity , we find , in mammalia and birds , very scanty evidence ...
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... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. American continent , and forming part of the Tertiary " Nearctic region . " This is ... Old World continent . There were also one or more very ancient unions ( in Eocene or Miocene times ) of the two ...
... Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. American continent , and forming part of the Tertiary " Nearctic region . " This is ... Old World continent . There were also one or more very ancient unions ( in Eocene or Miocene times ) of the two ...
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