On the lofty mountains of equatorial America a host of peculiar speciesbelonging to European genera occur.
Such facts {478} as the presence of peculiar species of bats, and the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic islands, are utterly inexplicable on the theory of independent acts of creation.
Europe; for whence could they have been derived, as these several countries do not possess a number of peculiar species as distinct parent-stocks?
The Osborne beds are distinguished by peculiar species of Paludina, Melania, and Melanopsis, as also of Cypris and the seeds of Chara.
These divisions have each a considerable number of peculiar species, no less than fifty-five being found in the Ceram group only; and besides this, most of the separate islands have some species peculiar to themselves.
Two of these are bats, one is a pig of a peculiar species (Sus papuensis), and the rest are all marsupials.
Such facts as the presence of peculiar species of bats, and the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic islands, are utterly inexplicable on the theory of independent acts of creation.
The multiplication of these little creatures is without parallel, and almost every plant has its peculiar species.
All of them, as Mr. Logan pointed out, are characterized by inclosing a peculiar species of fossil vegetable called Stigmaria, to the exclusion of other plants.
Therefore, in all cases where we happen to know, from independent evidence of a geological kind, that an oceanic island is of very ancient formation, the evolution theory would expect to encounter a great wealth of peculiar species.
On the other hand, there is in both a marvellous wealth of peculiar species of insects and land-shells.
All the deer are of peculiar species, except two, which range from Malacca into India.
This is just as if the Isle of Man possessed a peculiar species of thrush and blackbird, distinct from the birds which are common to England and Ireland.
Like the insects and birds, the land-shells of these islands have a generally European aspect, but with a larger proportion of peculiar species.
The lizards are five in number; a peculiar species of gecko, Phyllodactylus galapagensis, and four species of the American family Iguanidae.
Law) (a) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
A peculiar speciesof poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.
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