File:Distribution of Animals - Andes.jpg

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The Chilian Andes, with characteristic animals.

  • Foreground: pair of chinchillas, Chinchilla lanigera
  • Coming round the mountain: herd of vicunas, as Auchenia vicugna (= Vicugna vicugna

)

  • Upper bird: plant-cutter, Phytotoma rara
  • Bird below: "Thinocorus orbignianus" (spelling T. orbignyianus)
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Source The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. II: Project Gutenberg : Internet Archive
Author Alfred Russel Wallace. Illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814–1876).


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