CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Distributional Area and Station Influence of Temperature Humidity 

 Other Factors in Distribution Importance of Palaeontology Inequality 

 in the Ages of different Groups of Animals Different Groups have different 

 Geographical Distribution Importance of Mammals in Geographical 

 Distribution Classification of Mammals Barriers to Dispersal of Mam- 

 mals Influence of Man on Distribution Extinction of the larger 

 Plistocene Mammals Distributional Areas of Genera and Species 

 Centres of Evolution Permanency of Continents and Ocean-Basins 

 Zoological Realms and Regions ....... i 



CHAPTER II. 

 THE NOTOG^EIC REALM. 



Definition and Characters of the Realm Australian Region Monotremes 

 Marsupials Rodents Carnivores Ungulates Bats List of Australian 

 and Papuan Genera Polynesian Region Hawaiian Region Austro- 

 Malayan Region Palseontological History of Marsupials How Australia 

 received its Fauna . . . . . . . . .28 



CHAPTER III. 



THE NEOG^EIC REALM. 



Extent and Characters Mammaliferous Deposits Monkeys Bats Insecti- 

 vora Carnivores Ungulates Horses Litopterna Astrapotheria 

 Toxodonts Pyrotheria Proboscideans Rodents Edentates Arma- 

 dillos and Glyptodonts Sloths Anteaters Ground-sloths Marsupials 

 Cetaceans Early Distinction of the Neogseic Fauna Early Separation 

 of N. and S. America Incursion of Northern Mammals Distinctness of 

 the existing Fauna Origin of the Santa Cruz Fauna Antarctica and the 

 South American element in the Ethiopian Fauna Conclusion Sub- 

 regions 64 



