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THE GEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS 



Summary and Deductions as regards the 

 Order Proboscidea 



1. The Order Proboscidea contains only the genus 

 Mejohas (forming a family Elephantidre) with two existing 

 species. 



2. One of these belongs to the Oriental and the other 

 to the Ethiopian Region. 



Section III. — General Distribution of the 

 Ungulates 



The Ungulates which we now arrive at, and which 

 constitute the ninth order of mammals according to the 

 arrangement here adopted, contain the greater number of 

 the largest and most highly developed forms of the whole 

 class of mammals and embrace in their varied series 

 nearly all the animals (such as the Horse, Sheep, Goat, 

 Ox, Deer, Camel, and Pig) which are most useful to man- 

 kind, although we cannot always recognize the original 

 stocks from which the domesticated forms of these animals 

 have descended. The mode of the distribution of these 

 Mammals over the earth's surface is, therefore, of special 

 interest, and we must say something about each of the 

 groups into which they are usually divided in classification. 

 The 300 species of Ungulates usually recognized constitute 



