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. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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Page 76
... united to a continent at no very distant epoch , and still maintain a continental variety of vertebrata , no such special development of land - shells has taken place . If we compare the Philippine islands with the Sunda group , we find ...
... united to a continent at no very distant epoch , and still maintain a continental variety of vertebrata , no such special development of land - shells has taken place . If we compare the Philippine islands with the Sunda group , we find ...
Page 81
... united with Yucatan and Honduras in one extensive tropical land . But their sepa- ration from the continent took place at a remote period , and they have since been broken up into numerous islands , which have probably undergone much ...
... united with Yucatan and Honduras in one extensive tropical land . But their sepa- ration from the continent took place at a remote period , and they have since been broken up into numerous islands , which have probably undergone much ...
Page 87
... United States Ethiopian Cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite All regions but Australian All regions but Australian Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Tropical regions Cosmopolite 110. Psophiida 111. Eurypygidæ ... 113 ...
... United States Ethiopian Cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite All regions but Australian All regions but Australian Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Tropical regions Cosmopolite 110. Psophiida 111. Eurypygidæ ... 113 ...
Page 93
... Mexico to Patagonia and Tierra All regions but Ethiopian del Fuego and Australian 4 South Temp . America to Tierra United States del Fuego Order , Family , and Genus . No. of Species CHAP . XIV . ] 93 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... Mexico to Patagonia and Tierra All regions but Ethiopian del Fuego and Australian 4 South Temp . America to Tierra United States del Fuego Order , Family , and Genus . No. of Species CHAP . XIV . ] 93 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
Page 96
... United States & Canada Nearctic , Palearctic Mexico and Cuba to Bolivia and Cen , and S. U. States La Plata CINCLIDE . 16. Cinclus TROGLODYTIDE .. 17. Troglodytes 18. Thryophilus 19. Thryothorus 20. Cistothorus 21. Donacobius 4 Mexico ...
... United States & Canada Nearctic , Palearctic Mexico and Cuba to Bolivia and Cen , and S. U. States La Plata CINCLIDE . 16. Cinclus TROGLODYTIDE .. 17. Troglodytes 18. Thryophilus 19. Thryothorus 20. Cistothorus 21. Donacobius 4 Mexico ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand