File:Distribution of Animals - Alps.jpg

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A scene in the Alps of Central Europe, with figures of some of the most characteristic Mammalia and Birds of this sub-region.

  • Left, badger (as Meles Taxus)
  • Right, chamois (as Rupicapra tragus)
  • Top left, Alpine chough, (as Fregilus pyrrhocorax)
  • Foreground, a pair of ruffs (as Machetes pugnax)
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Source The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. I: Project Gutenberg : Internet Archive
Author Alfred Russel Wallace. Illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814–1876).


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