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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.

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

_IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOLUME II._

London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1876.

[_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved._]




  LONDON:
  R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
  BREAD STREET HILL.




  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 MUTATIONS.

  CHAPTER XIV.

  THE NEOTROPICAL REGION.

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