53O GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. 



Boar, and the Ass ; the various kinds of Deer, the Sheep, 

 the Goats, and Oxen ; the Birds of Prey, the Perching 

 and Singing Birds, the Pigeons, the Grouse, the Waders, 

 and the Swimming Birds ; the Fishes and Reptiles ; the 

 Insects and the shells, and other and lower forms of life 

 of the North Temperate zone, are unknown in all 

 the Arctic regions. Not only so, but the animals which 

 bear these names are not of the same species in North 

 America that they are in Europe or Asia. The Grizzly 

 Bear is confined to Western North America ; the Brown 

 Bear, to the northern parts of the Eastern hemisphere. 

 The American Sable, Fisher, and Weasel inhabit Northern 

 North America ; the Russian Sable and true Ermine in- 

 habit Siberia, and the Beach Marten is found in Europe. 

 A species of Reindeer inhabits Lapland, but in Northern 

 North America are two species of Reindeer, both of which 

 are different from the European one. The Moose of 

 Maine and Canada closely resembles the Elk of Europe, 

 but is not identical with it ; the Stag of Europe and the 

 American Deer are two species ; and the noble Wapiti, 

 with antlers six feet in length, and the curious Musk- 

 Ox and Bison, belong exclusively to North America; 

 though in the forests of Lithuania the latter has an ana- 

 logue in the European Buffalo. The Golden Eagle and 

 Peregrine Falcon may be identical in the two hemi- 

 spheres ; but the White-headed Eagle, and the Great Vul- 

 ture of California, are never found outside of North Amer- 

 ica, and the Lammergeyer never quits the limits of Europe. 

 The European may justly boast of the sweet singing of 

 the Nightingale ; but the indescribable and ravishing notes 

 of the Wood Thrush and of the Hermit Thrush are only 

 heard in the deep groves of North America. The Box- 

 Turtles, the Wood-Tortoise, the Painted Turtle, the curi- 

 ous Trionyx, the Snapper, and all the numerous species 

 of Turtle of North America, are represented in Europe by 

 only one species, the Testudo grceca of Linnaeus. 



