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 52
... Panama to Guatemala , and , with Myxomys , a genus of Muridæ , are all at present discovered . Bassaris , a remarkable form of Procyonidæ , has been included in the Nearctic region , but it extends to the high - lands of Guatemala ...
... Panama to Guatemala , and , with Myxomys , a genus of Muridæ , are all at present discovered . Bassaris , a remarkable form of Procyonidæ , has been included in the Nearctic region , but it extends to the high - lands of Guatemala ...
Page 56
... Panama to Mexico , but there are a considerable number , comprising many of the most characteristic South American forms , which do not pass north of Costa Rica or Nicaragua . Such are Lycorea , Ituna , Thyridia , Callithomia , Oleria ...
... Panama to Mexico , but there are a considerable number , comprising many of the most characteristic South American forms , which do not pass north of Costa Rica or Nicaragua . Such are Lycorea , Ituna , Thyridia , Callithomia , Oleria ...
Page 58
... Panama , and thus obtained that rich variety of Neotropical types that still characterises it . When the final union of the two continents took place , the tropical climate of the lower portions of Guatemala and Mexico would invite ...
... Panama , and thus obtained that rich variety of Neotropical types that still characterises it . When the final union of the two continents took place , the tropical climate of the lower portions of Guatemala and Mexico would invite ...
Page 60
... Panama , are known to possess one peculiar bird , a cuckoo of the Coccyzus type , which is considered by some ornithologists to con- stitute a peculiar genus , Nesococcyx . IV . The West Indian Islands , or Antillean Sub - region . The ...
... Panama , are known to possess one peculiar bird , a cuckoo of the Coccyzus type , which is considered by some ornithologists to con- stitute a peculiar genus , Nesococcyx . IV . The West Indian Islands , or Antillean Sub - region . The ...
Page 78
... Panama and Costa Rica were sunk beneath the Pacific . At this time the Lesser Antilles had no existence . The only large island of whose geology we have any detailed account , is Jamaica ; and taking this as a 78 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL ...
... Panama and Costa Rica were sunk beneath the Pacific . At this time the Lesser Antilles had no existence . The only large island of whose geology we have any detailed account , is Jamaica ; and taking this as a 78 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL ...
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