THE GEOGRAPHICAL

DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS.

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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.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

AAMIAALA

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1876.

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 MU-
TATIONS.

CHAPTER XIV..

THE NEOTROPICAL REGION.

General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region (p. 5)-Distinctive Charac

ters 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)

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