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Title: The geography of mammals
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sclater, William Lutley, 1863- Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913
Subjects: Mammals Zoogeography
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Mammalia.London, 1888-91. (3) Oldham, R. D.—Manual of the Geology of India. Calcutta,1893. SO 60 70 / / 1 ~)><r^ 30 \ *\A 1 V —4—___ / / 1 r / ^Xj- i v^hL ^c / / \f x r 20 i~-Fæ (talk) s\ <=^ / \ S7 u B\ -^ 10 ~~ —4—^ -~~i^\S 0 / ..3 Scale of Miles -^ v 0 100 20V ono 400 500 UOO *v~^ 60 70 8 MAP OF THE ORIENT/ 152 THE GEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS northern inhabitants southwards. It thus came to passthat, at that period of the worlds history, the Mammalianfaunas of Southern Europe, South-Eastern Asia, and ofIndia were so nearly uniform as to constitute thesecountries, as regards their mammals, one widely extendedRegion. List op the Principal Authorities referred to in Chapter V. (1) Milne-Edwards, H. et A.— Recherches pour servir a lhistoirenaturelle des Mammiferes. Paris, 1868. (2) Blanford, W. T.—The Fauna of British India : Mammalia.London, 1888-91. (3) Oldham, R. D.—Manual of the Geology of India. Calcutta,1893.
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MAP OF THE ORIENTAL REGION SHOWING ITS DIVISION INTO 4 SUB-REGIONS. vr? J/, I *m vL CHAPTER VI THE NEARCTIC REGION (Plate VI, p. 176) Section I.—Boundaries of the Nearctic Region With the Nearctic Region we enter upon a subject onwhich there has been a great deal of controversy among thestudents of geographical distribution. As was pointed outin the introductory article of this volume, a certain numberof writers maintain that this Region does not contain asufficient quantity of distinctive and indigenous forms toentitle it to separation from the Palsearctic Region. Whatshould constitute a sufficient number of distinctive formsdepends, of course, largely on the individual opinions ofthe writers, but if allowance be made for the undoubtedsimilarities of the extreme northern parts of the Old andNew Worlds, which together may be considered as form-ing a kind of intermediate district, the facts and figuresgiven below will, we think, convince every one that theland-surfaces of the Palrear

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