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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... species in West Africa , and Hammatocerus , which has one in Australia . The Lamiidæ have 219 genera , and this is the only tropical region in which they do not exceed the Cerambycidæ . This number is almost exactly the same as that of ...
... species in West Africa , and Hammatocerus , which has one in Australia . The Lamiidæ have 219 genera , and this is the only tropical region in which they do not exceed the Cerambycidæ . This number is almost exactly the same as that of ...
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... species in South America ; Stenogyra , widely spread in the tropics ; and ... species of shells were common to the two sides of the Central American Isthmus ... number of peculiar forms , and the west coast of South America is , to some ...
... species in South America ; Stenogyra , widely spread in the tropics ; and ... species of shells were common to the two sides of the Central American Isthmus ... number of peculiar forms , and the west coast of South America is , to some ...
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... number and variety of its animal forms . The reptiles , fishes , mollusca , and insects of this sub - region have ... species . Overhead are perched a pair of curassows ( Crax globulosa ) , which represent in America the pheasants of the Old ...
... number and variety of its animal forms . The reptiles , fishes , mollusca , and insects of this sub - region have ... species . Overhead are perched a pair of curassows ( Crax globulosa ) , which represent in America the pheasants of the Old ...
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... number of land - birds to thirty - two , and of wading and aquatic birds to ... species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range ... species occurs in the Galapagos , although very closely allied to South ...
... number of land - birds to thirty - two , and of wading and aquatic birds to ... species not peculiar are , Dolichonyx oryzivorus , a bird of very wide range ... species occurs in the Galapagos , although very closely allied to South ...
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... species of Vertebrates , —1 quadruped , 52 birds and 5 reptiles , the greater part of which are found nowhere else , while a considerable number belong to peculiar and very remarkable genera . genera . We must therefore notice them in ...
... species of Vertebrates , —1 quadruped , 52 birds and 5 reptiles , the greater part of which are found nowhere else , while a considerable number belong to peculiar and very remarkable genera . genera . We must therefore notice them in ...
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