chap, i.] PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 2 1 



world differ from each other. Australia, in fact, stands 

 alone : it possesses no apes or monkeys, no cats or tigers, 

 wolves, bears, or hyenas ; no deer or antelopes, sheep or 

 oxen ; no elephant, horse, squirrel, or rabbit ; none, in 

 short, of those familiar types of quadruped which are met 

 with in every other part of the world. Instead of these, 

 it has Marsupials only, kangaroos and opossums, wombats 

 and the duck-billed Platypus. In birds it is almost as 

 peculiar. It has no woodpeckers and no pheasants, 

 families which exist in every other part of the world ; but 

 instead of them it has the mound-making brush-turkeys, 

 the honeysuckers, the cockatoos, and the brush-tongued 

 lories, which are found nowhere else upon the globe. All 

 these striking peculiarities are found also in those islands 

 which form the Austro-Malayan division of the Archi- 

 pelago. 



The great contrast between the two divisions of the 

 Archipelago is nowhere so abruptly exhibited as on pass- 

 ing from the island of Bali to that of Lombock, where the 

 two regions are in closest proximity. In Bali we have 

 barbets, fruit-thrashes, and woodpeckers ; on passing over 

 to Lombock these are seen no more, but we have abund- 

 ance of cockatoos, honeysuckers, and brush-turkeys, which 

 are equally unknown in Bali, 1 or any island further west. 



1 I was informed, however, that there were a few cockatoos at one spot 

 on the west of Bali, showing that the intermingling of the productions of 

 these islands is now going on. 



