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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Page 57
... periods , they were separated by a wide arm of the sea . The low country of Nicaragua was probably the part submerged , leaving the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala still united with the North American continent , and forming part of ...
... periods , they were separated by a wide arm of the sea . The low country of Nicaragua was probably the part submerged , leaving the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala still united with the North American continent , and forming part of ...
Page 58
... period there was not that marked diversity of climate between North and South America that now prevails ; for when a luxuriant vegetation covered what are now the shores of the Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must ...
... period there was not that marked diversity of climate between North and South America that now prevails ; for when a luxuriant vegetation covered what are now the shores of the Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must ...
Page 78
... period , from the burning of forests ; and as we know that in all the islands many of the species are excessively local , being often confined to single valleys or ridges , we may be sure that wherever the native forests have ...
... period , from the burning of forests ; and as we know that in all the islands many of the species are excessively local , being often confined to single valleys or ridges , we may be sure that wherever the native forests have ...
Page 79
... period as having occurred after the close of the Miocene , or during some part of the Pliocene epoch , since a large portion of the surface of the former island consists of beds of marine limestone from 2,000 to 3,000 thick , believed ...
... period as having occurred after the close of the Miocene , or during some part of the Pliocene epoch , since a large portion of the surface of the former island consists of beds of marine limestone from 2,000 to 3,000 thick , believed ...
Page 80
... deficiencies or its specialities , points to a long continuance of isolation from the rest of the world , with a few very distant periods of union with the northern continent . The latest 80 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... deficiencies or its specialities , points to a long continuance of isolation from the rest of the world , with a few very distant periods of union with the northern continent . The latest 80 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere 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 PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata 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