CHAP. X.} THE PALZZARCTIC REGION. 233 
TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION. 
In constructing these tables showing the distribution of vari- 
ous classes of animals in the Palearctic region, the following 
sources of information have been chiefly relied on, in addition 
to the general treatises, monographs, and catalogues used in 
compiling the fourth part of this work. 
Mammalia.—Lord Clement’s Mammalia and Reptiles of 
Europe ; Siebold’s Fauna Japonica; Pére David’s List of 
Mammalia of North China and Thibet ; Swinhoe’s Chinese 
Mammalia ; Radde’s List of Mammalia of South-Eastern Siberia ; 
Canon Tristram’s, Lists for Sahara and Palestine; Papers by 
Professor Milne-Edwards, Mr. Blanford, Mr. Sclater, and the 
local lists given by Mr. A. Murray in the Appendix to his 
Geographical Distribution of Mammalia. 
Birds.—Blasius’ List of Birds of Europe; Godman, On 
Birds of Azores, Madeira, and Canaries; Middendorf, for 
Siberia; Pére David and Mr. Swinhoe, for China and Mongolia ; 
Homeyer, for East Siberia; Mr. Blanford, for Persia and the 
high Himalayas; Mr. Elwes’s paper on the Distribution of 
Asiatic Birds; Canon Tristram, for the Sahara and Palestine ; 
Professor Newton, for Iceland and Greenland; Mr. Dresser, 
for Scandinavia; and numerous papers and notes in the Ibis; 
Journal fiir Ornithologie; Annals and Mag. of Nat. History ; and 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 
Reptiles and Amphibia.—Schreiber’s European Herpetology. 
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