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the musk-ox, the camel, the musk-deer, moles, desmans, 

 dormice, and various special carnivores. 



The second region may be called the Ethiopic, consist- 

 ing as it does of Africa south of the Sahara, with Mada- 

 gascar and Southern Arabia. This is (in South Africa) 

 the great region of antelopes ; and here the girafi'e and 

 hippopotamus now have their only home. Buffaloes and 

 chevrotains inhabit it, also zebras, the aard-wolf, and the 

 aard-vark, the gorilla and chimpanzee, all the baboons, 

 the thumbless apes called colobi, the potto and the galagos, 

 and the golden-moles. In Madagascar are the true 

 lemurs, the indris, and that most peculiar beast, the 

 aye-aye. 



The third geographical region is the Indian, and 

 includes Asia south of the Himalaya down to the Island 

 of Bali. In this region we have the orang (Borneo and 

 Sumatra). All the long-armed apes, the macaques, the 

 slender and slow loris, the tai^sier, tupaias, and the colugo, 

 the Malayan tapir, the nilghai, the tiger, and hunting 

 leopard, the sloth bear, chevrotains, and the four-horned 

 antelopes. 



The fourth geographical region is the Australian, and 

 includes the Indian Archipelago from the Island of 

 Lornbock, Moluccas, New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania, 

 and New Zealand. Here we find all the marsupials 

 exclusively, save the true opossums ; the monotremes, 

 and the dingo. 



The fifth region is that of Northern New World, and 

 embraces North America down to North Mexico. Here 

 alone are to be found the wapiti, the American bison, 

 the prong-buck, and the mountain sheep, the racoon 

 and coati, pouched-rats and vesper-mice, the musquash, 

 the skunk, and the American badger. 



Lastly we have the region of the New World Tropics, 



