34 ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMALS. 
bubo L., fig. 3.) represents, in Central Europe, the 
snowy species of the Arctic regions. It is common in 
the German and Hungarian fo- 
rests, although very rare in Eng- 
land. ‘The Iceland falcon is not, 
as it name would imply, con- 
fined to that frigid country, but 
is well known in Germany under 
the name of the Falco caudicans 
of authors. The wide geo- 
graphic range of the class of 
rapacious birds already noticed 
(27.), enables us to account for 
the dispersion of the remaining 
European falcons over all the 
temperate and southern parts of 
this continent, and over the 
northern regions of Africa, in the greater number of in- 
stances. With the exception of the three-toed species, 
all the other woodpeckers, five in number, are found in 
the forests and woods of Central Europe. 
(48.) To detail the varied distribution of the warblers 
and the small insectivorous birds would far exceed 
the limits of this sketch; their northernmost limits, how- 
ever, do not extend beyond Central Europe; nor are 
we aware of any one species found in France and 
Germany, which does not occur in the southern king- 
doms. The few gallinaceous birds, with the exception 
of the grouse, are chiefly found in similar temperatures : 
they consist of three species of bustards, two of part- 
ridges, and one of the quail. The grouse seem to occupy 
an intermediate station between the centre of Europe 
and the confines of its polar extremity: the largest is 
the famous cock of the woods, once an inhabitant of 
the Scottish forests ; which country alsc produces an- 
other species, the red game of the sportsman, which is 
found in no other part of the world. Four of the most 
beautiful of European birds, namely, the bee-eater, the 
roller, the hoopoe, and the golden oriole, in their 
