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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface — John Shaqi

The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: 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 1: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface

Name: The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Author: Wallace, Alfred Russel

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Paleontology; Zoogeography

Zoological Characteristics of the Ethiopian Region (p. 252)--Summary of
  Ethiopian Vertebrates (p. 255)--The Ethiopian Sub-regions (p. 258)--The
  East African Sub-region, or Central and East Africa (p. 258)--The West
  African Sub-region (p. 262)--Islands of the West African Sub-region
  (p. 265)--South African Sub-region (p. 266)--Atlantic Islands of the
  Ethiopian Region;--St. Helena (p. 269)--Tristan d'Acunha (p. 271)--
  Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, or the Malagasy Sub-region (p. 272)
  --The Mascarene Islands (p. 280)--Extinct Fauna of the Mascarene Islands
  and Madagascar (p. 282)--General Remarks on the Insect Fauna of
  Madagascar (p. 284)--On the probable Past History of the Ethiopian Region
  (p. 285)--Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Ethiopian Region
  (p. 294)--Table II. List of Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of
  the Ethiopian Region (p. 300)                                     251-313

  CHAPTER XII.

  THE ORIENTAL REGION.

  Zoological Characteristics of the Oriental Region (p. 315)--Summary of
  Oriental Vertebrata (p. 318)--The Oriental Sub-regions (p. 321)--
  Hindostan, or Indian Sub-region (p. 321)--Range of the Genera of Mammalia
  which inhabit the Sub-region of Hindostan (p. 322)--Oriental, Palæarctic,
  and Ethiopian Genera of Birds in Central India (p. 224)--Sub-region of
  Ceylon and South India (p. 326)--The Past History of Ceylon and South
  India, as indicated by its Fauna (p. 328)--Himalayan or Indo-Chinese
  Sub-region (p. 329)--Islands of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region (p. 333)--
  Indo-Malaya, or the Malayan Sub-region (p. 334)--Malayan Insects (p. 341)
  --The Zoological Relations of the several Islands of the Indo-Malay
  Sub-region (p. 345)--Philippine Islands (p. 345)--Java (p. 349)--Malacca,
  Sumatra, and Borneo (p. 353)--Probable recent Geographical Changes in the
  Indo-Malay Islands (p. 357)--Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna
  (p. 359)--Concluding Remarks on the Oriental Region (p. 362)--Table I.
  Families of Animals inhabiting the Oriental Region (p. 365)--Table II.
  Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds in the Oriental Region (p. 371)
                                                                    314-386

  CHAPTER XIII.

  THE AUSTRALIAN REGION.

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