Chapter XIII: The Australian Region

General Zoological Characteristics of the Australian Region (p. 390)--
Summary of the Australian Vertebrata (p. 397)--Supposed Land-connection
between Australia and South America (p. 398)--Insects (p. 403)--
Land-shells (p. 407)--Australian Sub-regions (p. 408)--Austro-Malayan
Sub-region (p. 409)--Papua, or the New Guinea Group (p. 409)--The
Moluccas (p. 417)--Insects--Peculiarities of the Moluccan Fauna (p. 420)
--Timor Group (p. 422)--Celebes Group (p. 426)--Origin of the Fauna of
Celebes (p. 436)--Australia and Tasmania, or the Australian Sub-region
(p. 438)--The Pacific Islands, or Polynesian Sub-region (p. 442)--Fiji,
Tonga, and Samoa Islands (p. 443)--Society and Marquesas Islands (p. 443)
--Ladrone and Caroline Islands (p. 444)--New Caledonia and the New
Hebrides (p. 444)--Sandwich Islands (p. 445)--Reptiles of the Polynesian
Sub-region (p. 448)--New Zealand Sub-region (p. 449)--Islets of the New
Zealand Sub-region (p. 453)--Reptiles, Amphibia, and Fresh-water Fishes
(p. 456)--Insects (p. 457)--The Ancient Fauna of New Zealand (p. 459)--
The Origin of the New Zealand Fauna (p. 459)--Causes of the Poverty of
Insect-life in New Zealand: its Influence on the Character of the Flora
(p. 462)--Concluding Remarks on the Early History of the Australian
Region (p. 464)--Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Australian
Region (p. 468)--Table II. Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of
the Australian Region (p. 473) 387-485

Index to Vol. I 489-503

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I.

1. Map of the World, showing the Zoo-Geographical Regions and the
contour of the Ocean-bed _Frontispiece_

_To face page_

2. Map of the Palæarctic Region 181

3. Plate I. The Alps of Central Europe with Characteristic
Animals 195

4. Plate II. Characteristic Mammalia of Western Tartary 218

5. Plate III. Characteristic Animals of North China 226

6. Map of the Ethiopian Region 251

7. Plate IV. Characteristic Animals of East Africa 261

8. Plate V. Scene in West Africa with Characteristic Animals 264

9. Plate VI. Scene in Madagascar with Characteristic Animals 278

10. Map of the Oriental Region 315

11. Plate VII. Scene in Nepaul with Characteristic Animals 331

12. Plate VIII. A Forest in Borneo with Characteristic Mammalia 337

13. Plate IX. A Malacca Forest with some of its Peculiar Birds 340

14. Map of the Australian Region 387

15. Plate X. Scene in New Guinea with Characteristic Animals 415

16. Plate XI. The Characteristic Mammalia of Tasmania 439

17. Plate XII. The Plains of New South Wales with Characteristic
Animals 442

18. Plate XIII. Scene in New Zealand with some of its Remarkable
Birds 455

ERRATA IN VOL. I.

I have detected several misprints and small errors in the final impression, and Dr. Meyer, who has translated the work into German, has kindly communicated all that he has noticed. It is not thought necessary to give here all the smaller orthographical errors, most of which will be corrected in the Index. The following seem, however, to be of sufficient importance to justify me in asking my readers to correct them in their copies.

Page 93, 12 lines from foot, _for_ Hocco _read_ Hoazin.

" 97, line 2, _for_ Hocco _read_ Hoazin.

" 147, 13 lines from foot, _for_ three-handed _read_ three-banded.

" 177, line 6, _for_ Lycænidæ _read_ Zygænidæ.

" 183, line 20, _for_ third _read_ fourth.

" 238, line 18, _for_ Spirigidea _read_ Sphingidea.

" 242, _insert_ | 92a | Tamias | 1 | All Northern Asia | N. America.

" 245, last line, _insert in 2nd column_ (6).

" 309, line 20, _for_ Motacilla _read_ Budytes.

" 327, 12 lines from foot, _after_ Hindostan _read_ and.

" 331, last line, for _Icthyopsis_ read _Icthyophis_.

" 340, line 15, for _Edolius_ read _Bhringa_.

" 348, line 17, _for_ Flores _read_ New Guinea.

" 371, 11 lines from foot, _for_ and Borneo _read_ Borneo and
Philippines.

" 391, 10 lines from foot, _after_ Celebes _add_ and the Papuan
Islands.

" 391, 9 lines from foot, _omit_ New Guinea or.

" 414, 6 lines from foot, for _Epimachus_ read _Seleucides_.

" 415, line 10 _for_ ditto _read_ ditto.

" 427, line 20, _after_ Celebes _add_ and on some of the Philippine
Islands.

" 427, 5 lines from foot, _for_ tusks _read_ jaw.

" 462, 15 lines from foot, _for_ p. 156 _read_ p. 166.

" 474, 9 lines from foot, _after_ Celebes _add_ Papua.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS.