330 ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY. [part in. 



Zoological Characteristics of the Himalayan Sub-region. — 

 Taking this sub-region as a whole, we find it to be charac- 

 terised by 3 genera of mammalia (without counting bats), and 

 44 genera of land-birds, which are altogether peculiar to it ; 

 and by 13 genera of mammalia and 36 of birds, which it 

 possesses in common with the Malayan sub-region; and 

 besides these it has almost all the genera before enumerated 

 as " Oriental," and several others of wide range, more especially 

 a number of Palsearctic genera which appear in the higher 

 Himalayas. The names of the more characteristic genera are 

 as follows : — 



Peculiar Himalo-Chinese Genera. 



Mammalia. — Urva, Arctonyx, JElurus. 



Birds. — Suya, Sorites, Chmmarrhornis, Tarsigcr, Oreicola, 

 Acanthoptila, Grammatoptila, Trochalopteron, Actinoalura, Sibia, 

 Suthora, Paradoxornis, Chlenasicus, Tesia, Rimator, A^githaliscus, 

 Cephalopyrus, Liothrix, Siva, Minla, Proparus, Cutia, Yuhina, 

 Ixulus, Myzornis, Erpornis, Hemixus, Chibia, Niltava, Anthipes, 

 Chclidorhynx, Urocissa, Pachyglossa, Heterura, Hcematospiza, 

 Anipeliceps, Saroglossa, Psarisomus, Scrilophus, Vivia, Hyopicus, 

 Gecinulus, Aceros, Ceriornis. 



Genera common to the Himalo-Chinese and Malayan 

 Sub-regions. 



Mammalia. — Hylobates, Nycticcbus, Viverricula, Prionodon, 

 Aretitis, Paguma, Arctogale, Cuon, Gymnopus, Aonyx, Helictis, 

 Rhinoceros, Nemorhedus, Rhizomys. 



Birds. — Oreocincla, Notodela, Janthocincla, Timalia, Stachyris, 

 Mixornis, Trichastoma, Enicurus, Pnaspyga, Melanochlora, Allo- 

 trius, Microscelis, Iole, Analcipus, CocJwa, Rhringa, Xanthopygia, 

 Hylocharis, Cissa, Tcmnurus, Crypsirhina, Chalcostetha, An- 

 threptes, Chalcoparia, Gymbirhynchus, Hydrornis, Sasia, Venilia, 

 Pndicator, Carcineutes, Lyncornis, Macropygia, Argusianus Poly- 

 plectron, Euplocamus, Phodilus. 



Plate VII. Scene in Nepal, with Characteristic Himalayan 

 Animals. — Our illustration contains figures of two mammals 



