intergrade
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When more specimens are obtained from the front range of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at lower altitudes, the manner in which these two subspecies intergrade with one another will be better understood.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
Of the Black Phoebe, the two subspecies semiatra and nigricans intergrade in Coahuila.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban
Larger and darker than S. v. shumaginensis; the two intergrade near the base of the Kenai Peninsula.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
I find these kinds to intergrade continuously one with the next in the manner described and conclude that all are of a single species.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
If Geomys lutescens major Davis is correctly judged to intergrade with Geomys bursarius majusculus Swenk, the name for the full species will be Geomys bursarius because bursarius is the oldest name among those available.
From Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
Sierra Nevada of California, north at least to El Dorado County, intergrading northerly with S. v. vagrans.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
It inhabits the Barren Grounds from Hudson Bay north-westward to the Mackenzie, and is represented by related and intergrading forms nearly throughout Alaska, and southward in the Rocky Mountains to the northern United States.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell
Passing by many interesting members of the psychological series of intergrading forms, we reach the familiar animals like the cat and dog and horse which display what is called intelligence.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton
No. 31633 shows no sign of intergrading with J. p. phaeonotus to the south.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban
Some of the animals are practically indistinguishable in color and there are intergrading cranial characters in the nasals, zygomatic arches and tympanic bullae.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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