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TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION. 



In constructing these tables showing the distribution of vari- 

 ous classes of animals in the Palaearctic 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 Pieptiles of 

 Europe ; Siebold's Eauna Japonica ; Pere David's List of 

 Mammalia of North China and Thibet ; Swinhoe's Chinese 

 Mammalia ; Eadde'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 ; Pere 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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