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TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION. 



In drawing up these tables showing the distribution of various 

 classes of animals in the Ethiopian Eegion, the following sources 

 of information have been chiefly relied on, in addition to the 

 general treatises, monographs, and catalogues, used for the Fourth 

 Part of this work : — 



Mammalia, — Blanford's Abyssinia ; Peters's Mozambique ; 

 Heuglin and Schweinfurth for North East Africa ; Grandidier 

 Schlegel, &c, for Madagascar; the local lists given by Mr. 

 Andrew Murray ; numerous papers by Fraser, Gray, Kirk, 

 Mivart, Peters, Sclater, and Speke; and a MS. list of Bovida* 

 from Sir Victor Brooke. 



Birds. — Finsch and Hartlaub for East Africa; Heuglin for 

 North-East Africa ; Blanford for Abyssinia ; Layard for South 

 Africa ; Hartlaub for West Africa ; Dohrn for Princes Island ; 

 Andersson for Damaraland ; and papers by Gurney, Hartlaub, 

 Kirk, Newton, Peters, Sharpe, Sclater, Schlegel, and Pollen ; 

 and a MS. list of Madagascar Birds from Mr. Sharpe. 



