Island Life; Or, the Phenomena And Causes of Insular Faunas And Floras, Including a Revision And Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Island Life; Or, the Phenomena And Causes of Insular Faunas And Floras, Including a Revision And Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
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Nestoridae. 27 Digitized by Google 418 ISLAND LIFE. [Part II. many important groups, and exhibiting an altogether poverty- stricken appearance as regards the higher animals. It is a sug- gestive fact that the Philippine Islands bear an exactly parallel relation to Borneo, being equally deficient in many of the higher groups ; and hero too, in the Sooloo Sea, we find a similar en- closed basin of great depth. Hence we may in both cases con- nect, on the one hand, the extensive area of land surfa...ce and of adjacent shallow sea with a long period of stability and a con- sequent rich development of the forms of life; and, on the other hand, a highly broken land surface, with the adjacent seas of great but very unequal depths, with a period of disturbance, probably involving extensive submereions of the land, resulting in a scanty and fragmentary vertebrate fauna. Zoology of Celebes, — The zoology of Celebes d iff ere so remark- ably from that of both the great divisions of the archipelago above indicated that it is very diflBqult to decide in which to place it.
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