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His minor Regions, as drawn from the areas occupied by species, are 'as follows, — 



1. Ai-ctic region : comj)rised between the Polar and Arctic circles in Europe, Asia, and 



America. 



2. The temperate regions of Europe (being Europe minus Lapland, Spain and Portugal, Lan- 



guedoc province, Italy, the shore of the Adriatic, Greece, Roumelia, and the Crimea). 



3. Region of the Mediterranean Sea (being the circumfei-ence of that sea without Egypt, and 



comprising Portugal). 



4. Canaiy Islands, Madeira, Azores. 



5. Sencgambia, Cape de Yerd Islands, Sahara. 



6. Guinea, north of the Equator, and Soudan. 



7. Central Guinea (Congo, Benguela, towards the centre of tlie Continent). 



8. Islands of St. Helena and Ascension. 



9. Cape of Good Hope (extra-tropical South Africa). 



10. Tristan d'Acunha. 



11. Prince Edward's Islands, Kerguelen, and St. Paul's. 



12. Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, Se3'chelles, and Comoro Islands. 



13. Mozambique and Zanzibar, almost to the centre of the Continent. 



14. Region of the Red Sea (Abyssinia, Cordofan, Nubia, Egj^pt, Arabia Occidental). 



15. Persia : region of the Euphrates and Oriental Arabia. 



16. Caucasus, Crimea, Armenia. 



17. Tartary (the lower region to the cast of the Caspian Sea). 



18. Siberia, from the Ural Jlountains to Kanitschatka, and from the Polar Circle to the Altai 



Momi tains. 



19. Central Asia, between the Altais and tlie Ilimmalayahs. 



20. Cashmere, Cabool, Afighanistan, to the mouths of the Indus. 



21. Himmalayahs (on the south side), being Nepavd, Bhotan. 



22. China and Japan. 



23. Philippine Islands. 



24. Cochiu-China (Annam, Cochin-China, Tonquin, Bankok). 



25. Birman Empire and Assam. 



26. Bengal and the Ganges. 



27. Indian Peniusida and Ceylon. 



28. Indian Archipelago, States of Malacca (Sunda Isles, the Moluccas, Borneo, Timor, New 



Guinea, New Ireland). 



29. New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Norfolk. 



30. Feejee Islands, Friendly, Society, Marquesas, and Easter Islands. 



31. Marion, Caroline, Mulgrave Islands. 



32. Sandwich Islands. 



33. The Aleutian Isles, and the North-west of America, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, and New 



California. 



34. United States {mi nun Texas and Oregon), Canada, Labrador, Newfoundland, Bermudas. 



35. Mexico, Texas, California proper, Guatemala, Yucatan. 



36. Antilles (Cuba and Bahamas, as far as Trinity). 



