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Uiiropceo-Asiatic Region. — The Europceo-Asiatic Eegiou embraces a far 

 greater (about four times greater) area thau the North American, and is 

 physically much more highly diversified. It is similarly divisible into 

 a Cold Temperate Subregion and a Warm Temperate Subregion, and is 

 further differentiated into a number of well-marked provinces, two of 

 which belong to the Cold Temperate Subregion, and three or more to 

 the Warm Temperate Subregion.* 



Genera of the Europao- Asiatic Region. 



[Note.— A few almost exclusively tropical genera, which barely reach or doubtfully extend a abort 

 distance over the southern boundary of the region, are omitted as being not properly faunal elements 

 of the region. 



The names of circumpolar genera are in italics ; those of genera peculiar to the region in small CArt 



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Gunera. 



Macacus 



Felis 



Lynx 



Cynselurus — 



Genctta 



Herpestes 



Hyaena 



Canis 



Cuon 



Yii'pes 



Arctonyx 



Nyctereutes . 



Oulo 



Mustela 



Putorius 



Lutra 



LUTEONECTES . 



Enhydris 



Mellivora 



Meles 



^aSlurus 



iELUKOPUS 



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* I am far from sure that what is here recognized as the " Mediterranean Province" 

 should not be subdivided, and the Eastern or Persian division recognized as a "Persian 

 Province ". If the Eastern, Middle, and Western divisions of the North American Re- 

 gion are to be accorded the rank of "Provinces", it maybe necessary to admit, on similar 

 grounds, a "Japanese Province"; but I am not at j» resent prepared to adopt these 

 divisions as "Provinces". To make the Provinces of the North American and 

 EuropEBO-Asiatic Regions more nearly co-ordinate, I should prefer to unite the Middle 

 and Western Provinces of the North American Region as forming a single Province. 

 In fact, it seems doubtful whether the North American Region is differentiated into 

 primary divisions that should be regarded as having co-ordinate rank with the Medi- 

 terranean and Manchurian divisions of the Europseo-Asiatic Region. 



