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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... birds , without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent , its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe , and the persistence through countless ages of all the conditions ...
... birds , without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent , its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe , and the persistence through countless ages of all the conditions ...
Page 26
... birds ( Bucconidae ) ; but the humming - birds ( Trochi- lida ) have their greatest development in the Andean district .. Brazil and Guiana have each a peculiar genus of parrots ; Guiana has three peculiar genera of Cracidæ , while the ...
... birds ( Bucconidae ) ; but the humming - birds ( Trochi- lida ) have their greatest development in the Andean district .. Brazil and Guiana have each a peculiar genus of parrots ; Guiana has three peculiar genera of Cracidæ , while the ...
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... birds are to be found . On the left we have the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus ornatus ) , so called from its wonderful crest , which , when ex- panded , completely overshadows its head like an umbrella . It is also adorned with a long ...
... birds are to be found . On the left we have the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus ornatus ) , so called from its wonderful crest , which , when ex- panded , completely overshadows its head like an umbrella . It is also adorned with a long ...
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... Birds - To illustrate the we place our scents on , a district where inent zoological feature of kable and interesting birds ars to be eve the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus on its wonderful crest , which , when ex- badows its head like ...
... Birds - To illustrate the we place our scents on , a district where inent zoological feature of kable and interesting birds ars to be eve the umbrella - bird ( Cephalopterus on its wonderful crest , which , when ex- badows its head like ...
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... birds with silky plumage peculiar to the Amazon valley . They are often kept in houses , where they get very tame and affec- tionate ; and they are useful in catching flies and other house insects , which they do with great perseverance ...
... birds with silky plumage peculiar to the Amazon valley . They are often kept in houses , where they get very tame and affec- tionate ; and they are useful in catching flies and other house insects , which they do with great perseverance ...
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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