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TABLES OF DISTEIBUTION. 



In drawing up these tables, showing the distribution of the 

 various classes of animals in the Australian region, the followincj 

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

 general treatises, monographs, and catalogues used in compiling 

 tlie 4th Part of this work. 



Mammalia. — Gould, Mammals of Australia; Waterhouse on 

 Marsupials ; Dr. J. E. Gray's List of Mammalia of New Guinea ; 

 Miiller, Temminck and Schlegel on Mammals of the Moluccas; 

 papers by Dr. Gray ; and personal observations by the Author. 



Birds. — Gould's Birds of Australia ; Buller's Birds of New 

 Zealand; G. E. Gray's Lists of Birds of Moluccas, &c. ; Ilart- 

 laub and Finsch on Birds of Pacific Islands ; Sclater on Birds 

 of Sandwich Islands ; papers by Haast, Hutton, Meyer, Salvin. 

 Schlegel, Sclater, Travers, Lord Walden and the Author. 



Eejjtilcs. — Krefft, Catalogue of Snakes ; Gunther, List of 

 Lizards in Voyage of Erebus and Terror (1875) ; and numerous 

 papers. 



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