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INDEX. 



Moschus, 90, 92 



Mud Fish, The, of Africa and 



America, 3 



Mus musculus, 193 ; rattus, 210 

 Musophagida3, 100 

 Mydaus, 106 

 Myogale, 91 

 Myrmecobius, 117 

 Myrmecophaga, 33, 34, 111 

 Myrmecophagidae, 31 

 Myro, 194 



Mystacina tuberculata, 200, 215 

 Myxomys, 112 



Naia tripudians, 149 



Nearctic Kegion, 93; sub-regions, 

 96 



Nebo, 53 



Nectogale, 92 



Nematoda, 136 



Neodrilus, 65 



Neogaea, 45 



Neosorex, 96 



Neotropical Region, families pe- 

 culiar to, 207 ; genera peculiar 

 to, 108; Sub-regions, 110 



Nepa, 142 



Nesomys, 188 



New Guinea, the original home 

 of the Cassowaries, 24 



New Zealand, Bats of, 215, 216; 

 extinct birds of, 202 ; Fauna of, 

 199 ; Flora of, 127 



Notogaea, 56, 75, 76 



Notonecta, 143 



Notornis, 201, 211 



Notykus, 68 



Novo-Zealanian sub-region, 118 



Numida, 30 



Numididae, 27 



Nyctereutes, 92 

 Nycticorax violaceus, 219 

 Nyctiornis, 105 



Oceanic Islands and submerged 



Continents, 157 

 Oceans, Permanence of, 156 

 Ocnerodrilus, 70 

 Octochaetus, 60, 65, 66, 169 

 Ocydromus, 201 

 (Eneis jutta, 16 

 Oligochasta, 58 ; Dispersal of, 138, 



139; terricolae, 169 

 Onchidium, 3 

 Onychochaeta, 64 

 Opisthacanthus, 53 

 Opisthocentrus, 53 

 Opisthodactylus, 167 

 Opisthocomidaa, 27, 76 

 Opisthocomus, 11, 27, 109 

 Orang, 104, 106 

 Oriental Kegion, Families peculiar 



to the, 103 ; genera peculiar to 



the, 103 ; Sub-regions, 105 

 Ornithogaaa, 75 

 Ornithorhynchus, 224 

 Ornix devoniella, 11 

 Orycteropodidae, 32, 34 

 Orycteropus, 33, 34 

 Ostolasmus, 43, 44 

 Ostracod, 192 

 Ostrich tribe, 29 

 Otidiaa, 75 

 Ovibos, 97 

 Ovis montana, 96 

 Owl, The Barn, 7 



Pachyornis, 202 



Palsearctic Kegion, 88, 89 ; Sub- 

 regions, 91 



