The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceWallace, Alfred Russel
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Paleontology; Zoogeography
_Otocorys_ (8 sp.); the Palæarctic region, North America and south to the
Andes of Columbia, North India; (1928 1929) _Alauda_ (17 sp.), Palæarctic
region, all Africa, the Peninsula of India, and Ceylon; (1931) _Galerita_
(10 sp.), Central Europe to Senegal and Abyssinia, Persia, India and North
China; (1932) _Calendula_ (2 sp.), Abyssinia and South Africa; (1933 1934)
_Calandrella_ (6 sp.), Europe, North Africa, India, Burmah, North China,
and Mongolia; (1935-1937) _Melanocorypha_ (7 sp.), South Europe to Tartary,
Abyssinia, and North-west India; _Pallasia_ (sp. 7781), East Asia; (1938)
_Certhilauda_ (4 sp.), South Europe, South Africa; _Heterocorys_ (sp. 7792)
South Africa; (1939) _Alæmon_ (3 sp.), South-east Europe to Western India,
and South Africa; (1940) _Mirafra_ (25 sp.), the Oriental and Ethiopian
regions to Australia; (1941) _Ammomanes_ (10 sp.), South Europe to
Palestine and Central India, and to Cape Verd Islands and South Africa;
(1942 1943) _Megalophonus_ (6 sp.), Tropical and South Africa;
_Tephrocorys_ (1 sp.), South Africa; _Pyrrhulauda_ (9 sp.), all Africa,
Canary Islands, India and Ceylon.
{290}FAMILY 38.--MOTACILLIDÆ. (9 Genera, 80 Species.)
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION.
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NEOTROPICAL| NEARCTIC |PALÆARCTIC | ETHIOPIAN | ORIENTAL | AUSTRALIAN
SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS.
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The Motacillidæ, or Wagtails and Pipits, are universally distributed, but
are most abundant in the Palæarctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions, to
which the true wagtails are almost confined. The following genera are
usually adopted, but some of them are not very well defined:--
_Motacilla_ (15 sp.), ranges over the greater part of Europe, Asia, and
Africa, and to Alaska in North-west America; _Budytes_ (10 sp.), Europe,
Africa, Asia to Philippines, Moluccas, Timor, and North Australia;
_Calobates_ (3 sp.), South Palæarctic and Oriental regions to Java;
_Nemoricola_ (1 sp.), Oriental region; _Anthus_ (30 sp.), all the great
continents; _Neocorys_ (1 sp.), Central North America; _Corydalla_ (14
sp.), South Europe to India, China, the Malay Islands, Australia, New
Zealand and the Auckland Islands: _Macronyx_ (5 sp.), Tropical and South
Africa; _Heterura_ (1 sp.), Himalayas.
FAMILY 39.--TYRANNIDÆ. (71 Genera, 329 Species.)
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