48<i l>r. W. T. I'.Ianl'ord. Tit 1h*t rtlmin.i of 



into nineteen tracts, di>lingui>hed liy physical characters -u< h as 

 rainfall, temperature, pre-em e or aW-nce uf fore>t>. ami prevalcn. e \ 

 hilly ground, ami to ronstruct table- -houing the diltributHW i each 

 genus of land or fresh- water vertebrate in the tracts. Genera have 

 ln-en selected for (Consideration, localise families an<l snlnfamili. 

 ti<> few in numler ami I<M> wide in I'an^e, whil-t >pei ies ,ne tun 

 niunerous and tM unequal in importance, It is rero^ni-ed that there 

 is much dirt'erenee in the value of genera in ditt'erent grou]s, the 

 ^enei-ic difl'erences in jxisserine In'rds, for instance, being as a rule of 

 inferior rank to those in some other orders of liirds, or to those gene- 

 rally adopted amount mammals, reptiles, and Katrachians. In the 

 denial-ration of regions and suli-regions. terrestrial mammalia are 

 regarded as of primary importance. 

 The tracts are the following -. 



A. !iiilfh(i'itii>/i-(i< riniti. 



1. 1'unjali. Sind. i>alu<-hisian, and Western Rajputana. 



2. (langetie Plain from Delhi to Ixajmahal. 



3. Bengal from Kajmahal to the Assam Hills. 



1. I ml in H I'i'ii/it.-tiilii. 



4. Kajputana and Central India as far south as the Nerlmdda. 



~). Deeean from the Nerbodda to alutut 1(5 N. lat. and from the 

 \\fstern (4hats to long. SO' K. 



6. Behar, Orissa, c., from the (langetic Plain to the Kistna. 



7. Cai-natic and .Madras, south of o and <>. and east of the Western 



Ghats. 



5. Malaliar Coast, C 'oilcan, and Western Ghats or Sahya<lri range 



from tin 1 Tapti Kiver to Cape Comorin. 



it. Northei-n and Ivistern Ceylon. 



10. Hill Ceylon, the Central, Western, and Southern 



1 >. Himaiaytu. 



11. Western Tibet and the Himalayas above torest. 



ll'. Western Himalayas from Haxara to the western frontier of 



Nepal. 

 13. Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikhim, Uhutan, >V< . 



