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Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Over all, the white-handed Gibbon(llylohatrs lor) swings and gambols among the topmost branchesof the forest. Rildilcs ayid Amphibia.—These are not sufficiently known tobe of much use for our present purpose. )\Iost of the generabelong to the continental parts of the Oriental region, or have awide range. Of snakes Jthahdosomcf, Tyj)hlocalamns, Tdragono-so7)u(, Acrochordus, and Atropos, are the most peculiar, and thereare several peculiar genera of llomalopsidie. Of Oriental genera,Cytindropliis, Xenojjelles, Calamarift, Ify2)strhina, Fsammody-nastis, (fO)ryosom(i, Trayopx, Dij)>^ct^, PareuFi, Pytlioii, Bungarus,Nnjn, and (^itllophis are abundant; as well as Simotes, Ahiidxs,7ropidonotus, and Dcndrophis, which are widely distributed.Among lizards Hydvomunia and Gcclo ore common; there aremany isolated groups ol Scincida; whdc DrWo, Caloles, andmany forms of Agamidu, some of which aic peculiar, abound. AmoiiL: the An)))hil)ia, loads and frogs of I ho genera Jlficr/tyla, i ILATE JX.
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A MALAYAN FOREST, WITH ITS CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS. iMiAi. XII.) TIM: OlUKNTAL lllOCUON. 341 K(f!oj)hr)/)n(.% Ansonia, and pHCvdohnfo^ are jicculinr: uliilc tlic.Oriental McrfaJnpJniif^, Lvabu^, )\Ji(ic<)p)u)rii.<(S, lliat tliey offer valuable indications of zoo-geo-grajtliical albnily ; and they particularly well exhibit thesharply defined limits of tlic region, a large number of Orientaland even Ethiopian genera extending eastward as far as Javaand Borneo, but very rarely indeed sending a single speciesfurtlier cast, to Celebes or the ^Moluccas. Thirteen families offresli-water fishes are found in the Indo-Malay sub-region. Ofthese the Scienida? and Symbrancliidse have mostly a wide1 ange in the tropics. Ophiocephalidog are exclusively Oriental,reaching Borneo and the Philippine islands. The ^N

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