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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... Upper Amazon , a district where this class of animals is the most prominent zoological feature , and where a number of the most remarkable and interesting birds are to be found . On the left we have the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus ...
... Upper Amazon , a district where this class of animals is the most prominent zoological feature , and where a number of the most remarkable and interesting birds are to be found . On the left we have the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus ...
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... Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. PLATE XV . A FOREST SCENE ON THE UPPER AMAZON , WITH SOME CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS . birds with silky plumage peculiar to the Amazon valley ...
... Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. PLATE XV . A FOREST SCENE ON THE UPPER AMAZON , WITH SOME CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS . birds with silky plumage peculiar to the Amazon valley ...
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... upper bird is a plant - cutter ( Phytotoma rara ) , of sober plumage but allied to the beautiful chatterers , though forming a separate family . Below , standing on a rock , is a plover - like bird , the Thinocorus orbi- gnianus , which ...
... upper bird is a plant - cutter ( Phytotoma rara ) , of sober plumage but allied to the beautiful chatterers , though forming a separate family . Below , standing on a rock , is a plover - like bird , the Thinocorus orbi- gnianus , which ...
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... Upper Amazon and E. Andes 3. Eriodes 3 East Brazil , S. of Equator 4. Ateles 14 Almost all tropical America 5. Mycetes 10 E. Guatemala to Paraguay 6. Pithecia 7 Equatorial Forests 7. Brachiurus 5 Equatorial Forests 8. Nyctipithecus 5 ...
... Upper Amazon and E. Andes 3. Eriodes 3 East Brazil , S. of Equator 4. Ateles 14 Almost all tropical America 5. Mycetes 10 E. Guatemala to Paraguay 6. Pithecia 7 Equatorial Forests 7. Brachiurus 5 Equatorial Forests 8. Nyctipithecus 5 ...
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... Upper Amazon 74. Manatus ... UNGULATA . TAPIRIDE . 75. Tapirus 76. Elasmognathus SUIDE . 77. Dicotyles CAMELIDE . 78. Auchenia CERVIDE . 79. Cervus RODENTIA . MURIDE . 80. Reithiodon California , S. temp . zone N. Atlantic 1 Gulf of ...
... Upper Amazon 74. Manatus ... UNGULATA . TAPIRIDE . 75. Tapirus 76. Elasmognathus SUIDE . 77. Dicotyles CAMELIDE . 78. Auchenia CERVIDE . 79. Cervus RODENTIA . MURIDE . 80. Reithiodon California , S. temp . zone N. Atlantic 1 Gulf of ...
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