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CHAPTER III 



South- Western Asia 



The Siberian a«rea is bordered on the north-west by the Baltic province, and on 

 the west by the eastern European tract. On the south-west it touches the Caspian 

 province, the fauna of which is nearly related to that of the Mediterranean region ; 

 ilc- Latter, as stated above, including a large part of south-western Asia. Besides- 

 Asia Minor, Syria. Palestine, and the Sinaitic Peninsula, this region embraces 

 tic- northern hall' of Arabia; other south -western countries comprised in the 

 Mediterranean region being Mesopotamia and, generally speaking, the basins of 

 the Euphrates and Tigris and, farther east, Persia and Afghanistan so far as they 

 are not included in the basins of the rivers flowing into the Caspian and the Sea 

 of Aral; but Baluchistan and the greater part of the Indus countries, as well as- 

 Kashmir, belong zoologically to the Mediterranean region. The non-Asiatic part 



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