CHAP. XIII. ] THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. . 467 
TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION 
In drawing up these tables, showing the distribution of the 
various classes of animals in the Australian region, the following 
sources of information have been relied on, in addition to the 
general treatises, monographs, and catalogues used in compiling 
the 4th Part of this work. 
Mammalia.—Gouid, Mammals of Australia; Waterhouse on 
Marsupials ; Dr. J. E. Gray’s List of Mammalia of New Guinea ; 
Miiller, Temminck and Schlegel on Mammals of the Moluccas; 
_papers by Dr. Gray ; and personal observations by the Author. 
Birds.—Gould’s Birds of Australia; Buller’s Birds of New 
Zealand; G. R. Gray’s Lists of Birds of Moluccas, &c.; Hart- 
laub and Finsch on Birds of Pacific Islands; Sclater on Birds 
of Sandwich Islands ; papers by Haast, Hutton, Meyer, Salvin, 
Schlegel, Sclater, Trav ers, Lord Walden and the Author. 
Reptiles.—Krefft, Catalogue of Snakes; Gunther, List of 
Lizards in Voyage of Erebus and Terror (1875); and numerous 
papers. 
