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 156
... Japan . This remarkable flora has been found over a wide extent of country - New Jersey , Alabama , Kansas , and near the sources of the Missouri in the latitude of Quebec - so that we can hardly impute its peculiarly temperate ...
... Japan . This remarkable flora has been found over a wide extent of country - New Jersey , Alabama , Kansas , and near the sources of the Missouri in the latitude of Quebec - so that we can hardly impute its peculiarly temperate ...
Page 157
... Japan , and the Cape of Good Hope , it does not necessarily imply more than a warm and equable temperate climate . The early North Ameri- can Hora , on the other hand , seems to have been essentially the same in type as that which now ...
... Japan , and the Cape of Good Hope , it does not necessarily imply more than a warm and equable temperate climate . The early North Ameri- can Hora , on the other hand , seems to have been essentially the same in type as that which now ...
Page 168
... Japan and St. Helena , and a few other recent works ; and have , I believe , elaborated a more extensive series of facts to illustrate the distribution of insects , than has been made use of by any previous writer 168 [ PART IV ...
... Japan and St. Helena , and a few other recent works ; and have , I believe , elaborated a more extensive series of facts to illustrate the distribution of insects , than has been made use of by any previous writer 168 [ PART IV ...
Page 173
... Japan ; and one of the commonest species , M. cynomolgus , has extended its range from Java eastward to the extremity of Timor . The tail varies greatly in length , and in the Gibraltar monkey ( M. innus ) is quite absent . A remarkable ...
... Japan ; and one of the commonest species , M. cynomolgus , has extended its range from Java eastward to the extremity of Timor . The tail varies greatly in length , and in the Gibraltar monkey ( M. innus ) is quite absent . A remarkable ...
Page 181
... Japan . They are also found in the more fertile parts of Australia and Tasmania , and in the Pacific Islands as far east as the Marianne and Samoa Islands ; but not in the Sandwich Islands or New Zealand . The genera of bats are ...
... Japan . They are also found in the more fertile parts of Australia and Tasmania , and in the Pacific Islands as far east as the Marianne and Samoa Islands ; but not in the Sandwich Islands or New Zealand . The genera of bats are ...
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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 Celebes Central America Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna forests Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia 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 ORIENTAL SUB-REGIONS Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Tropical South America Venezuela West Africa West Indian Islands Zealand
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Page 346 - ... so completely intermediate between the anserine birds on the one side, and the storks and herons on the other, that it can be ranged with neither of these groups, but must stand as the type of a division by itself.
Page 536 - ... catalogued on a uniform plan, and with a uniform nomenclature, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution of Animals will not be possible.
Page 5 - Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature of Neotropical zoology, and no other region can approach it in the number of . its peculiar family and generic types.
Page 203 - ... elk. Erasmus Stella describes the elk as existing in Prussia in the early part of the sixteenth century (' De Borussiae antiquitatibus,' in Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum (Paris, 1532), p. 507 [wrongly numbered 497] sq.) The elk or moose deer still ranges over the whole of Northern Europe and Asia as far south as East Prussia, the Caucasus, and North China. It was once common in the forests of Germany and France, and is still found in some parts of Norway and Sweden,...
Page 174 - Condylura (1 species), the star-nosed mole, inhabits Eastern North America from Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania; Scapanus (2 species) ranges across from New York to St.
Page 329 - It is a large, brown, long-legged, weakly-formed and loosely-crested bird, having such anomalies of structure that it is impossible to class it along with any other family. It is one of those survivors, which tell us of extinct groups, of whose past existence we should otherwise, perhaps, remain for ever ignorant.
Page 326 - ... Philippines (where indeed they were first discovered by Europeans), Labuan, and even the Nicobars — though none is known from the intervening islands of Borneo, Java or Sumatra. Within what may be deemed their proper area they are found, says AR Wallace (Ceogr. Distr. Anitnals, ii. 341), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease.
Page 354 - ... and perhaps the main one — in bringing about the extinction of many of the larger species of these wingless birds. The wide distribution of the Struthiones may, as we have already suggested (VoL I., p. 287.), be best explained, by supposing them to represent a very ancient type of bird, developed at a time when the more specialized carnivorous mammalia had not come into existence, and preserved only in those areas which were long free from the incursions of such dangerous enemies.
Page 370 - ... before we reach the Arctic Circle — we cannot expect the two Northern regions to exhibit any great variety or peculiarity. Yet in their warmer portions they are tolerably rich; for, of the 25 families of snakes, 6 are found in the Nearctic region, 10 in the...
Page 537 - Some of these coincident variations have been alluded to in various parts of this work, but they have never been systematically investigated. They constitute an unworked mine of wealth for the enterprising ' explorer ; and they may not improbably lead to the discovery of some of the hidden laws (supplementary to Natural Selection), which seem to be required, in order to account for many of the external characteristics of animals.