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III. THE HIMALO-CHINESE SUB-REGION. 



This is characterized principally by species of birds 

 which occur at a high elevation in the Himalayas, and are 

 found at similar heights in the mountains of China. The 

 most characteristic genus is probably that of the Horned 

 Pheasants ( Tragopati}. 



IV. THE INDO-MALAYAN SUB-REGION. 



This is an equivalent of the Indian-Peninsular and Indo- 

 Chinese Sub- Regions, and contains numbers of representa- 

 tive species. It includes the low lands of the Malayan 

 Peninsula and the Indo-Malayan Islands, and has its 

 eastern boundary in " Wallace's Line," which passes through 

 the deep sea of the Straits of Lombock, gives Bali, Borneo, 

 and the Philippines to the Indo-Malayan Sub-Region, and 

 Lombock and Celebes to the Australian Region. 



The Indo-Malayan Sub-Region has most of the genera 

 possessed by the Indian-Peninsular and Indo-Chinese Sub- 

 Regions. Pittas are more abundant, the Fairy Blue-birds 

 (Irena) are represented by several species, numbers of 

 peculiar species of Timeliine Birds ( Timeliidce) flourish, and 

 even distinct genera of the latter Family are characteristic 

 of the Sub-Region. Many Pheasants are Indo-Malayan, 

 but the most striking of the Game-birds found in the area 

 are undoubtedly the two species of Argus Pheasants, 

 which are peculiar to the Sub-Region. 



V. THE HIMALO-MALAYAN SUB-REGION. 



The high mountain ranges of the Indo-Malayan and the 

 Indo-Chinese Sub-Regions contain an Avifauna which differs 

 considerably from that of the lower countries, and exhibits 

 a pronounced Himalayan element. Thus many genera, 



