Produced by Keith Edkins, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's note: The Errata (after the List of Plates) have been worked into the main text. All other apparent mistakes have been retained as printed. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_); page numbers enclosed by curly braces (example: {25}) have been incorporated to facilitate the use of the Index.. * * * * * THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS _WITH A STUDY OF THE RELATIONS OF LIVING AND EXTINCT FAUNAS AS ELUCIDATING THE PAST CHANGES OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE._ BY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, AUTHOR OF "THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO," ETC. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. _IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOLUME II._ London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1876. [_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved._] LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PART III. (_continued_). ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY: A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE IN THE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SUB-REGIONS, WITH THE INDICATIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MUTATIONS. CHAPTER XIV. THE NEOTROPICAL REGION. General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region (p. 5)--Distinctive Characters of Neotropical Mammalia (p. 6)--Of Neotropical Birds (p. 7)-- Neotropical Reptiles (p. 9)--Fresh-water Fishes (p. 12)--Insects (p. 13) --Coleoptera (p. 15)--Land Shells (p. 19)--Marine Shells (p. 20)-- Brazilian Sub-region (p. 21)--Its Mammalia (p. 23)--Its Birds (p. 24)-- Islands of Tropical South America, Galapagos (p. 29)--Chilian Sub-region (p. 36)--Birds (p. 38)--Reptiles and Amphibia (p. 40)--Fresh-water Fishes (p. 42)--Lepidoptera (p. 42)--Coleoptera (p. 44)--Islands of South Temperate America (p. 49)--Mexican Sub-region (p. 51)--Mammalia and Birds (p. 52)--Reptiles and Fishes (p. 54)--Insects (p. 55)--Relations of the Mexican Sub-region to the North and South American Continents (p. 57) --Islands of the Mexican Sub-region (p. 59)--The Antillean Sub-region (p. 60)--Its Mammalia (p. 62)--Its Birds (p. 64)--Table of the Resident Land Birds of the Antilles (p. 68)--Reptiles (p. 72)--Insects (p. 73)-- Land Shells (p. 75)--Past History of the Antilles (p. 78)--Summary of the Past History of the Neotropical Region (p. 80)--Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Neotropical Region (p. 85)--Table II. Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of the Neotropical Region (p. 91) 1-113 CHAPTER XV.