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THE GEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS 



is met with. The Hyraxes are, in most cases, inhabitants 

 of arid rocks, but in other cases are strictly arboreal in 

 their habits. 



Summary and Deductions as regards the 

 Order Hyraxes 



1. The Order Hy races contains a single genus (Hyrax) 

 forming a single family Hyracidse with about fourteen 

 known species. 



2. They are found only in the Ethiopian Region, 

 including Arabia and South Palestine. 



Section II. — Distribution of Elephants 



Of this grand form of animal life, formerly much more 

 abundant on the earth's surface, there remain in the 

 present epoch but two species, one of which is a character- 

 istic form of the Ethiopian Region and the other of the 

 Indian Region. The African Elephant, which, besides its 

 external peculiarities, should be referred from the structure 

 of its teeth according to some authorities to the sub-genus 

 Loxodon of the palaeontologists, was formerly found in 

 suitable spots all over the continent of Africa from the 

 Sahara and Upper Nubia down to the Cape. In these 

 days it has in most places been driven by the sportsmen 



