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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... animal forms of this region and of the Old World . To begin with the Quadrumana , all the larger American monkeys ... animals to a purely arboreal life . Four of the genera , comprising more than half the species , have the prehensile ...
... animal forms of this region and of the Old World . To begin with the Quadrumana , all the larger American monkeys ... animals to a purely arboreal life . Four of the genera , comprising more than half the species , have the prehensile ...
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... animal life . Passing on to the parrot tribe , we find the peculiar family of the Conuridæ , of which the macaws are the highest development , very largely represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again meet with ...
... animal life . Passing on to the parrot tribe , we find the peculiar family of the Conuridæ , of which the macaws are the highest development , very largely represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again meet with ...
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... animal . The fur of many of the sloths has a greenish tinge , and Dr. Seemann remarked its resemblance to the Tillandsia usneoides , or " vegetable horsehair , " which clothes many of the ... ANIMALS. 24 [ PART III ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... animal . The fur of many of the sloths has a greenish tinge , and Dr. Seemann remarked its resemblance to the Tillandsia usneoides , or " vegetable horsehair , " which clothes many of the ... ANIMALS. 24 [ PART III ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. THE PLAINS OF NEW SOUTH WALES , WITH CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS . ous figure is the collared one of the handsomest of.
... of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. THE PLAINS OF NEW SOUTH WALES , WITH CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS . ous figure is the collared one of the handsomest of.
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... animal . The fur of many of e- and Dr. Seemann remarked its Isia usneoides , or vegetable horsehair , " lothes many of the trees in Central America ; and this conceals them from their enemies , the barpy - eagles . On are a pair of ...
... animal . The fur of many of e- and Dr. Seemann remarked its Isia usneoides , or vegetable horsehair , " lothes many of the trees in Central America ; and this conceals them from their enemies , the barpy - eagles . On are a pair of ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti 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 Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate 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