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In the remaining groups , the African forms represent in percentual figures the
following only : i ) Picumninae – 1 . ... This pattern , common to Africa and Eurasia
( see Chapter IX ) , is indeed major as we shall better learn in the measure our ...
In the remaining groups , the African forms represent in percentual figures the
following only : i ) Picumninae – 1 . ... This pattern , common to Africa and Eurasia
( see Chapter IX ) , is indeed major as we shall better learn in the measure our ...
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i ) Africa has lost part of its former life , and extinction or failure of formmaking is
answerable for its indifferent to poor showing ; ii ) Or , Africa has been frankly
bypassed by the archetypal streams of dispersal of the groups there poorly ...
i ) Africa has lost part of its former life , and extinction or failure of formmaking is
answerable for its indifferent to poor showing ; ii ) Or , Africa has been frankly
bypassed by the archetypal streams of dispersal of the groups there poorly ...
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Dominance of Tropical Africa in a group pantropically distributed is somewhat
unusual , as I have already noticed ... to be beyond explanation if we consider
that the Barbets are massive in the African subxerophilous biotope ( about 70
forms in ...
Dominance of Tropical Africa in a group pantropically distributed is somewhat
unusual , as I have already noticed ... to be beyond explanation if we consider
that the Barbets are massive in the African subxerophilous biotope ( about 70
forms in ...
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