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 istic 



id mi 



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 ami; 



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AND ITS ASSOCIATES. 



179 



resembling 1 the buffalo, prefers the stinted herbage of the 

 arctic regions, and is able, by its periodical migrations, to 



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outlive a northern winter. The jackal (Canis aureus) inhabits 

 Africa, the warmer parts of Asia, and Greece; while the 

 isatis, or arctic fox (Cards lagopus), resides in the arctic 

 regions. The African hare and the polar hare have their 

 geographical distribution expressed in their trivial names ; ' * 

 and different species of bears thrive in tropical, temperate, 

 and arctic latitudes. 



Other writers soon followed up the same line of argument, 

 and Mr. Hodgson among others, in his account of the mam- 

 malia of Nepal, stated that the tiger was sometimes found 



low in the Himalaya. f Pen- 



mentioned 



Mount 



have placed it beyond all doubt that a species of tiger identi- 

 cal with that of Bengal is common in the neighbourhood of 

 Lake Aral, near Sussac, in the forty-fifth degree of North 

 latitude. Humboldt remarks, that the part of Southern 

 Asia now inhabited by this Indian species of tiger is separated 



Himalay 



great chains of mountains 



covered with perpetual snow, — the chain of Kuenlun, lat. 



35 N., and that of Mouzta 

 possible that these animals 



42 



so that it is im- 



merely have made 



summer 



the forty-eighth and fifty-third degrees of North 



Mountains 



bhe winter north of the Mouztagh, or 

 The last tiger killed, in 1828, on the 

 n a climate colder than tha/t of Pfrtars- 



m.t 



A species of panther (Felis irbis), covered with long hair, 

 has been discovered in Siberia, evidently inhabiting, like the 



Mountains 



tiger, a region north of the 

 in lat. 42°. § 



In regard to the climate of the living elephant, the Eev. 



, * Fleming, Ed. New Phil. Journ., No. 



X1 J« P. 282, 1 829. The zebra, however, 



^abits chiefly the extra-tropical parts 

 °* Africa. 



t Journ. of Asiat. Soc, vol. i. p. 240. 



| Humboldt, Eragmens de Geologie 

 &c, tome ii. p. 388. Ehrenberg, Ann 

 des Sci. Nat., tome xxi. pp. 387, 390. 

 Ehrenberg, ibid. 



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