The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceWallace, Alfred Russel
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Paleontology; Zoogeography
GRALLÆ | | |
SCOLOPACIDÆ. | | |
Micropelma | 1 | N. America | Andes to Chili
_Philohela_ | 1 | Eastern States to |
| | Canada |
| | |
CHARADRIIDÆ. | | |
Aphriza | 1 | W. coast of America | West of S. America
| | |
ANSERES. | | |
ANATIDÆ. | | |
Aix | 1 | N. America | China
Bucephala | 4 | N. America | Europe
Oedemia | 3 | N. America | Europe
Harelda | 1 | Arctic | Arctic Seas
Somateria | 5 | Arctic | North Palæarctic
_Camptolæmus_ | 1 | N. E. America |
| | (? extinct) |
| | |
LARIDÆ. | | |
_Creagrus_ | 1 | California and |
| | N. Pacific coasts |
{154}CHAPTER XVI.
SUMMARY OF THE PAST CHANGES AND GENERAL RELATIONS OF THE SEVERAL REGIONS.
Having now closed our survey of the animal life of the whole earth--a
survey which has necessarily been encumbered with a multiplicity of
detail--we proceed to summarize the general conclusions at which we have
arrived, with regard to the past history and mutual relations of the great
regions into which we have divided the land surface of the globe.
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