CONTENTS. 
PARE: }. 
ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMALS. 
CHAP. I. 
Reasons against the Belief that Food, Temperature, and other inferior 
Agents, are the primary Causes of the Variation of Man. — Limited 
Range of Animals which yet possess great Locomotive Powers.— Various 
Opinions on the primary Distribution of Animals. — Linnezus, Prichard, 
and others.— Theories upon Animal Geography.— Fabricius.—Latreille. 
—Prichard. — Propositions on this Subject stated. — Geographic Distri- 
bution of Man.—Arctic Regions - - - Page 1 
CHAP. ITI. 
EUROPE. 
Europe considered as a Zoological Province. — This Proposition supported 
by an analytical Survey of its Ornithology.—Preponderance of its generic 
Types. —Its Analogy to the Caucasian Type of Man. — Results of the 
foregoing Analysis.— Its Zoology considered more in detail, under the 
Three Heads of Arctic, Central, and Southern Europe - - 18 
CHAP. IIT. 
ASIA, 
The Asiatic Province. — Its general Character and Divisions. — Northern, 
Central, and Southern Asia. — The Peculiarities of each, as shown in 
their peculiar Animals.— Asiatic Genera of Quadrupeds and Birds - 43 
CHAP. IV. 
ON THE AMERICAN PROVINCE. 
General Remarks. — Its Zoological Features. — Divided into Arctic, Tem- 
perate, and Equinoctial America.—The Peculiarities and Animals of 
each. — General Remarks upon the Climate and Soil of Brazil, with 
reference to the Distribution of its Animals, — American Genera of 
Quadrupeds and Birds Meh i= - = - = 56 
