R.9814

IN TWO VOLUMES.-Y

GEOLOUME II.

ORATORIO DE C

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1876.

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BIBLIOTECA UCM

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LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

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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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