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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... northern genus ; Hipparchia , a northern genus yet having a species in Brazil ; -all Satyrida . The Nymphalidæ are represented by the typical north temperate genus Argynnis , with 7 species in Chili ; Colias , among the Pieridæ , is ...
... northern genus ; Hipparchia , a northern genus yet having a species in Brazil ; -all Satyrida . The Nymphalidæ are represented by the typical north temperate genus Argynnis , with 7 species in Chili ; Colias , among the Pieridæ , is ...
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... northern species , seems to indicate successive immigrations at remote intervals . Coleoptera . It is among the beetles of South Temperate America that we find some of the most curious examples of remote affinities , and traces of ...
... northern species , seems to indicate successive immigrations at remote intervals . Coleoptera . It is among the beetles of South Temperate America that we find some of the most curious examples of remote affinities , and traces of ...
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... northern forms , while storms would often carry insects from peak to peak over intervening forest lowlands or narrow straits of sea . If this is the true explanation , we ought to find no such preponderant northern element in groups ...
... northern forms , while storms would often carry insects from peak to peak over intervening forest lowlands or narrow straits of sea . If this is the true explanation , we ought to find no such preponderant northern element in groups ...
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... northern genus , Leptura , is said to have been found at Buenos Ayres . The Lamiidæ are less abundant . Nine of the genera are Neo- tropical . Two ( Apomecyna and Exocentrus ) are spread over all tropical regions . Ten genera are ...
... northern genus , Leptura , is said to have been found at Buenos Ayres . The Lamiidæ are less abundant . Nine of the genera are Neo- tropical . Two ( Apomecyna and Exocentrus ) are spread over all tropical regions . Ten genera are ...
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... Northern forms . Sorex , Vulpes , Lepus , and Pteromys reach Guatemala . Birds . The productiveness of this district in bird life , may be estimated from the fact , that Messrs . Salvin. 52 EP [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... Northern forms . Sorex , Vulpes , Lepus , and Pteromys reach Guatemala . Birds . The productiveness of this district in bird life , may be estimated from the fact , that Messrs . Salvin. 52 EP [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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