. Geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface. us, Passer (two species), Pyrrhula, Carpodacus, Loxia (twospecies), Pinicola, Fringilla (eight species), Emberiza (fivespecies), Alauda, Anthus, Turdus (five species), Ruticilla, Pratin-cola, Accentor, Sylvia (four sipecies), Hypolais, Pegulus,Phylloscopus(two species), Acrocephalus, Troglodytes, and Parus (six species).Woodpeckers are abundant. Picas (four species), Gecinits, andYunx. The kingfisher {Alcedo), goatsucker (Caprirmdgiis), and
. Geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface. us, Passer (two species), Pyrrhula, Carpodacus, Loxia (twospecies), Pinicola, Fringilla (eight species), Emberiza (fivespecies), Alauda, Anthus, Turdus (five species), Ruticilla, Pratin-cola, Accentor, Sylvia (four sipecies), Hypolais, Pegulus,Phylloscopus(two species), Acrocephalus, Troglodytes, and Parus (six species).Woodpeckers are abundant. Picas (four species), Gecinits, andYunx. The kingfisher {Alcedo), goatsucker (Caprirmdgiis), andswift (Cypselus) are also common. The wood-pigeon (Columba)is plentiful. The gallinaceous birds are three grouse, Tetrao (twospecies) and Bonasa, and the common ([uail {Coturnix). The remaining genera and species of temperate or north-European birds, do not usually range beyond the region ofdeciduous trees, roughly indi(^ated by the i)arallel of (50° northlatitude. Plate J. — IlliistratDig the Zoology of Central Piirope.—Before considering the distribution of the other classes ofvertebrata, it will be convenient to introduce our first illustra-. niAP. X.] Till-: PAL^ARCTIC REGION. 105 tion, which ivprosciits a scene in the Alps of Central Kuro])e,\\\{\\ lii-ures of some of the most characteristic Mammaliaand IMrds of this sub-region. On the left is the badger(Mclcs Taxus) one of the weasel family, and belonging to agenus which is strictly PaliJearctic. It abounds in Central andNorthern Europe and also extends into North Asia, but is repre-sented by another species in Thibet and by a third in elegantly-formed creatures on the right are chamois [Ihipi-capra tragus), almost the only European antelopes, and whollycontined to the higher mountains, from the Pyrenees to theCarpathians and the Caucasus. The chamois is the onlyspecies of the genus, and is thus perhaps the most characteristicEuropean mammal. The bird on the left, above the badgers, is*^ the Alpine chough,
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