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Palaearctic

/ ˌpælɪˈɑːktɪk /

adjective

  1. of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of Europe, Africa north of the Sahara, and most of Asia north of the Himalayas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Incidentally, the different osprey subspecies/species do hybridise in some places and there are reasons for thinking that eastern Palaearctic and North American ospreys have become more alike – due to hybridisation – since the end of the Pleistocene.

Evidence for a second western Palaearctic seabird extinction during the last Millennium: the Lava shearwater Puffinus olsoni.

Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals, 1758 to 1947.

The fishes found in the rivers of the Himalaya show the same general connexion with the three neighbouring regions, the Palaearctic, the African and the Malayan.

The fauna of the Tibetan Himalaya is essentially European or rather that of the northern half of the old continent, which region has by zoologists been termed Palaearctic.

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