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Mr. W. T. Blanford on the African 



Bengal province is part of the Indo-Malay region to the east- 

 ward ; the Panjdb province, the limits of which were quite 

 unknown to me in 1870, I now find to be part of a very well- 

 marked province or subregion which extends along the shores 



1. Panjab province or subregion. 



2. Indian province : a, Gangetic subproviuce ; h, Deccan subprovince ; 



c, Bengal subprovince ; d, Madras subprovince. 



3. Malabar province. 



4. Eastern-Bengal province. 



of the Arabian Sea and to the head of the Persian Gulf, and 

 contains throughout a curious mixture of Palaearctic and 

 Indian forms with a prevalence of desert types of animals 

 and plants. Its approximate limits to the westward coincide 

 with those of Oazella Bennetti^ and are shown in a little map 

 published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' *. 



* 1873, p. 314. I may mention that I have since ascertained that the 

 only species of Oazella found in Sind and the desert country to the 

 eastward is G, Bennetti. 



