_Birds._--Baird, Cassin, and Allen's Lists for United States; Richardson's Fauna Boreali Americana; Jones, for Bermudas; and papers by Brown, Coues, Lord, Packard, Dall, and Professor Newton. {140}TABLE I. _FAMILIES OF ANIMALS INHABITING THE NEARCTIC REGION._ EXPLANATION. Names in _italics_ show the families which are peculiar to the region. Names inclosed thus (......) show families which barely enter the region, and are not considered properly to belong to it. Numbers correspond to the series of numbers to the families in Part IV. ---------------------+-------------------+------------------------------- | Sub-regions | | 1=California. | Order and Family | 2=Rocky Mntns. | Range beyond the Region. | 3=Alleghanies. | | 4=Canada. | ---------------------+----+----+----+----+------------------------------- | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | ---------------------+----+----+----+----+------------------------------- | | | | | MAMMALIA. | | | | | CHIROPTERA. | | | | | 10. Phyllostomidæ | -- | | | | Neotropical 12. Vespertilionidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite 13. Noctilionidæ | -- | | | | Tropical regions | | | | | INSECTIVORA. | | | | | 21. Talpidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Palæarctic 22. Soricidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | The Eastern Hemisphere, excl. | | | | | Australia | | | | | CARNIVORA. | | | | | 23. Felidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | All regions but the Australian 28. Canidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | All regions but the Australian 29. Mustelidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | All regions but the Australian 30. Procyonidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Neotropical 32. Ursidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Palæarctic, Oriental 33. Otariidæ | -- | | | -- | N. and S. temperate zones 34. Trichechidæ | | | | -- | Arctic regions 35. Phocidæ | -- | | | -- | N. and S. temperate zones | | | | | CETACEA. | | | | | 36 to 41. | | | | | Oceanic | | | | | UNGULATA. | | | | | 47. Suidæ | | | -- | | All other continents but | | | | | Australia 50. Cervidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | All regions but Ethiopian and | | | | | Australian 52. Bovidæ | -- | -- | | -- |Palæarctic, Ethiopian, Oriental | | | | | RODENTIA. | | | | | 55.