

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 



PAET III. (continued). 



ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY: A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF FORMS OF 

 ANIMAL LIFE IN THE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SUB-REGIONS, 

 WITH THE INDICATIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MU- 

 TATIONS. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE NEOTROPICAL REGION. 



General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region (p. 5) — Distinctive Charac- 

 ters of Neotropical Mammalia (p. 6) — Of Neotropical Birds (p. 7) — Neotropical 

 Reptiles (p. 9) — Fresh-water Fishes (p. 12) — Insects (p. 13) — Coleoptera (p. 15) 

 —Land Shells (p. 19)— Marine Shells (p. 20)— Brazilian Sub-region (p. 21)— 

 Its Mammalia (p. 23) — Its Birds (p. 24) — Islands of Tropical South America, 

 Galapagos (p. 29) — Chilian Sub-region (p. 36) — Birds (p. 38)— Reptiles and 

 Amphibia (p. 40) — Fresh-water Fishes (p. 42)— Lepidoptera (p. 42) — Coleoptera 

 (p. 44) — Islands of South Temperate America (p. 49) — Mexican Sub-region 

 (p. 51)— Mammalia and Birds (p. 52)— Reptiles and Fishes (p. 54)— Insects 

 (p. 55)— Relations of the Mexican Sub-region to the North and South American 

 Continents (p. 57)— Islands of the Mexican Sub-region (p. 59) — The Antillean 

 Sub-region (p. 60)— Its Mammalia (p. 62)— Its Birds (p. 64)— Table of the 

 Resident Land Birds of the Antilles (p. 68)— Reptiles (p. 72)— Insects (p. 73) 

 —Land Shells (p. 75)— Past History of the Antilles (p. 78)— Summary of the 

 Past History of the Neotropical Region (p. 80)— Table I. Families of Animals 

 inhabiting the Neotropical Region (p. 85)— Table IT. Genera of Terrestrial 

 Mammalia and Birds of the Neotropical Region (p. 91) . • • 1 — 113 



