_Birds._--Finsch and Hartlaub for East Africa; Heuglin for North-East Africa; Blanford for Abyssinia; Layard for South Africa; Hartlaub for West Africa; Dohrn for Princes Island; Andersson for Damaraland; and papers by Gurney, Hartlaub, Kirk, Newton, Peters, Sharpe, Sclater, Schlegel, and Pollen and a MS. list of Madagascar Birds from Mr. Sharpe. {294}TABLE I. _FAMILIES OF ANIMALS INHABITING THE ETHIOPIAN REGION._ EXPLANATION. Names in _italics_ show families peculiar to the region. Names inclosed thus (......) barely enter the region, and are not considered properly to belong to it. Numbers are not consecutive, but correspond to those in Part IV. ---------------------+-------------------+------------------------------- | Sub-regions | | 1=East Africa. | Order and Family | 2=West Africa. | Range beyond the Region. | 3=South Africa. | | 4=Madagascar. | ---------------------+----+----+----+----+------------------------------- | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | ---------------------+----+----+----+----+------------------------------- | | | | | MAMMALIA. | | | | | PRIMATES. | | | | | 1. Simiidæ | | -- | | |Oriental 2. Semnopithecidæ | -- | -- | | |Oriental 3. Cynopithecidæ | -- | -- | -- | |Oriental, Palæarctic 6. Lemuridæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |Oriental 8. _Chiromyidæ_ | | | | -- | | | | | | CHEIROPTERA. | | | | | 9. Pteropidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |Oriental, Australian 11. Rhinolophidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |The Eastern Hemisphere 12. Vespertilionidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |Cosmopolite 13. Noctilionidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |All Tropical regions | | | | | INSECTIVORA. | | | | | 15. Macroscelididæ | -- | | -- | |South Palæarctic 17. Erinaceidæ | | | -- | |Palæarctic, Oriental 18. _Centetidæ_ | | | | -- |Greater Antilles 19. _Potamogalidæ_ | | -- | | | 20. _Chrysochloridæ_ | -- | | -- | | 22. Soricidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |All regions but Australian and | | | | | Neotropical | | | | | CARNIVORA. | | | | | 23. Felidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |All regions but Australian 24. _Cryptoproctidæ_ | | | | -- | 25. Viverridæ | -- | -- | -- | -- |Oriental, S. Palæarctic 26. _Protelidæ_ | | | -- | | 27. Hyænidæ | -- | -- | -- | |S. Palæarctic, India 28. Canidæ | -- | -- | -- | |Almost cosmopolite 29. Mustelidæ | -- | -- | -- | |All regions but Australian 33.