Excerpt from Animal Geography: The Faunas of the Natural Regions of the Globe Within the last few years, as is well known, botanical geography has made great strides. The intimate rela tion between the vegetative covering and the physical conditions has been in many cases thoroughly worked out, and all the more modern geographical text-books give at least some indication of the results obtained. On the other hand, the more difficult subject of the relation between the animals of the various natural regions and their surroundings has been much less fully treated by geographers. The facts have still mostly to be sought in zoological text-books, where they are treated from another point of. View, and many even of the most recent geographical text-books show uncertainty of treatment when dealing with the animals of tropical forest and arctic tundra. The present book is an attempt to put the main facts connected with the distribution of animals in a form acceptable to the geographical student, and has been written by one whose approach to geography was first made from the biological side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.