RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. CUL-DAR205.3.53-54. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.
Richardson, John. 1831. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Edinburgh Review 53 (Jun.): 328-360.
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Edinburgh Review Vol 53
Review of Richardson's Fauna Borealis.
Page 331 The golden Plover from Europe Asia Africa North America & New Holland is so nearly identical as to be scarcely distinguishable. The magpie of Europe & North America have been classed as distinct from a very small difference in plumage. The hooded Blackcap of Madeira is by some considered distinct from that of Europe (see Zoological Journal?)
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N. B. The great difference of ranges in species apparently equally adapted to migrate if a very great difficulty which must not be overlooked, for instance (Vanessa Cardui) being a cosmopolite, whilst others are so confined.
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Page 335 Edinburgh Review Vol. 53 Bory St Vincent has given an account of the fauna of Bourbon (Dict. classic. de' hist. nat Tom. 5. p. 44? Article Creation?) monkey there?
P. 339 Humboldt speaks of the impossibility of ever solving the problem of the migration & distribution of organic beings.
P. 360 Some mammalia from Mexico mentioned
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