The Geography of MammalsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 - 335 páginas |
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... greater number , not only of the species but even of the genera of this Sub - region , are peculiar and wholly restricted to these islands . It is , of course , among the smaller land- birds ( Passeres ) that this individuality is most ...
... greater number , not only of the species but even of the genera of this Sub - region , are peculiar and wholly restricted to these islands . It is , of course , among the smaller land- birds ( Passeres ) that this individuality is most ...
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... greater part of the Tertiary epoch , South America was entirely isolated from the rest of the world . Thus the present fauna has arisen from two quite different sources -first , from the original fauna of early Tertiary times ; and ...
... greater part of the Tertiary epoch , South America was entirely isolated from the rest of the world . Thus the present fauna has arisen from two quite different sources -first , from the original fauna of early Tertiary times ; and ...
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... Greater Antilles -absolutely unknown elsewhere . The Insectivores are usually considered to be the most generalised of all the mammalian orders , and to be the least changed descendants of the ancestral group from which most of the ...
... Greater Antilles -absolutely unknown elsewhere . The Insectivores are usually considered to be the most generalised of all the mammalian orders , and to be the least changed descendants of the ancestral group from which most of the ...
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... Greater and Lesser Antilles , exclusive of Tobago and Trinidad . 2. The Central - American Sub - region , containing all that part of the whole region that is north of Panama . 3. The Colombian Sub - region , containing Trinidad and the ...
... Greater and Lesser Antilles , exclusive of Tobago and Trinidad . 2. The Central - American Sub - region , containing all that part of the whole region that is north of Panama . 3. The Colombian Sub - region , containing Trinidad and the ...
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... greater progress , it seems best to unite the Colombian , Amazonian , and Brazilian Sub- regions of the Ornithologists into one combined Sub - region , which may be called the Guiano - Brazilian Sub - region . We shall thus have , as ...
... greater progress , it seems best to unite the Colombian , Amazonian , and Brazilian Sub- regions of the Ornithologists into one combined Sub - region , which may be called the Guiano - Brazilian Sub - region . We shall thus have , as ...
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Africa animals Ant-eater Antarctic Antelopes Arctic Armadillo Asia Atlantic Australian Region Bats beds belong birds Borneo boundary Bovida Cape Carnivora Celebes Central Chimpanzee Chiroptera closely allied coast confined considerable number contains Deer distinct districts Eastern Edentates endemic entirely Ethiopian Region Europe existing extends extinct fauna forests forms genera genus Geographical Distribution greater number inhabitants Insectivores islands known Lemurs Macacus Madagascar mainland Malagasy Malagasy Sub-region Malay Peninsula Malayan MAMMAL-FAUNA mammalian mammals Marsupials Monkeys Monotremes mountains naturalists Nearctic Region nearly Neotropical Region North northern number of genera number of species occur Ocean Old World Opossum Order Oriental Region Otaria Pacific Palearctic Region Papuan Sub-region Patagonia peculiar genera Phalanger Pinnipeds Pliocene present range recent remarkable represented restricted Rodents Sea-regions SECTION Sirenian South America Southern Sub-family Sumatra SUMMARY AND DEDUCTIONS Tapirs three genera total number tropical Ungulata Ungulates Viverrida Wallace's Line West African Western whole widely distributed Zealand