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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Page 34
... seas , and the immigrants are so numerous that hardly any specific change in the resident birds has taken place ... sea , because we find existing species with an. 34 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... seas , and the immigrants are so numerous that hardly any specific change in the resident birds has taken place ... sea , because we find existing species with an. 34 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
Page 35
... sea , because we find existing species with an enormous range . The ancestors of the Amblyrhynchi must have come as early , probably , as the earliest birds ; and the same powers of dispersal have spread them over every island . The two ...
... sea , because we find existing species with an enormous range . The ancestors of the Amblyrhynchi must have come as early , probably , as the earliest birds ; and the same powers of dispersal have spread them over every island . The two ...
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... sea ; and , therefore , the probability that suitable stations would be rapidly occupied by species already adapted to them , to the exclusion of those of the adjacent tracts which had been specialised under different conditions . If ...
... sea ; and , therefore , the probability that suitable stations would be rapidly occupied by species already adapted to them , to the exclusion of those of the adjacent tracts which had been specialised under different conditions . If ...
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... sea is shallow , the 100 fathom line of sound- ings passing outside the islands . We have therefore reason to believe that they have been connected with South America at a not distant epoch ; and in agreement with this view we find most ...
... sea is shallow , the 100 fathom line of sound- ings passing outside the islands . We have therefore reason to believe that they have been connected with South America at a not distant epoch ; and in agreement with this view we find most ...
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... sea , with numerous volcanic peaks from 12,000 to 18,000 feet high ; but in Yucatan and Honduras , the country is less . elevated , though still mountainous . On the shores of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico , there is a margin of ...
... sea , with numerous volcanic peaks from 12,000 to 18,000 feet high ; but in Yucatan and Honduras , the country is less . elevated , though still mountainous . On the shores of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico , there is a margin of ...
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