50 ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMALS. 
have suggested a less barbarous designation than 
‘© Felis Leo Goojratensis.” The species of Rhinoceros 
of these continents are known to be distinct ; yet the 
jackal of Southern India and of Africa seem to be 
the same. The more ferocious quadrupeds, generally 
denominated tigers, are much less abundant on this con- 
tinent, as regards species, than either in Africa or 
America. Yet, unfortunately, their numerical amount 
is unquestionably much greater. The Once (Felis uncia), 
, : from being found 
on the high moun- 
tains of Persia, 
is probably more 
characteristic of 
Central Asia ; 
while the true 
tiger (Felis Ti- 
gris, fig. 14.) is 
most abundant in 
the low jungles 
of Hindostan, and the humid forests of Sumatra. The 
Asiatic tiger-cats appear restricted to the larger islands : 
none of the species occur in Africa. 
(68.) The ornithological peculiarities of the Asiatic 
range are fully developed in Southern India, more par- 
ticularly in Malacca, and those islands immediately ad- 
joining the southern extremity of the continent. In 
some instances, there is a marked similarity between the 
groups of Tropical Asia and those of Equinoctial Africa ; 
while in others the differences are very great. This 
comparison will tend much to illustrate this part of 
our subject. 
(69.) Among those families of birds concentrated in 
Southern Asia, but which appear also, under the form 
of other species, to be distributed in Africa, are the 
Drongo shrikes (Hdolius Cuv.), the caterpillar-catchers 
(Ceblepyres Cuv.), the true flycatchers with long tails, 
typically represented by the paradise flycatcher (Mus- 
cicapa paradisea), the beautiful parrot-plumaged barbuts 
