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;Mr. W. T. Blanford oji the African 



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

 Avard ; the Panjab 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 tlie shores 



1. Panjab province or subregion. 



2. Indian province: a, Gangetic subpro^dnce ; b, Deccan subprovincej 



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 Palsearctic and 

 Indian forms with a prevalence of desert types of animals 

 and plants. Its approximate limits to the westward coincide 

 with those of Gazella 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 Gazella found in Sind and the desert country to the 

 pa.<»tward is G. Bennetti. 



