CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMALS. 



CHAP. I. 



Reasons against the Belief tliat Food, Temperature, and other inferior 

 Agents, are the primary Causes of the Variation of Man. — Limited 

 Range of Animals which yet possess great Locomotive Powers. — Various 

 Opinions on the primary Distribution of Animals. — Linnseus, Prichard, 

 and others. — Theories upon Animal Geography. — Fabricius. — LatreiUe. 

 — Prichard. — Propositions on this Subject stated. — Geographic Distri- 

 bution of Man. — Arctic Regions - - - Page 1 



CHAP. n. 



EUROPE. 



Europe considered as a Zoological Province. — This Proposition supported 

 by an analytical Survey of its Ornithology.— Preponderance of its generic 

 Types. — Its Analogy to the Caucasian Type of Man. — Results of the 

 foregoing Analysis. — Its Zoology considered more in detail, under the 

 Three Heads of Arctic, Central, and Southern Europe - - 18 



CHAP. III. 



ASIA. 



' The Asiatic Province. — Its general Character and Divisions. — Northern, 

 Central, and Southern Asia. — The Peculiarities of each, as shown in 

 their peculiar Animals. — Asiatic Genera of Quadrupeds and Birds - 43 



CHAP. IV. 



ON THE AMERICAN PROVINCE. 



General Remarks. — Its Zoological Features. — Divided into Arctic, Tem- 

 perate, and Equinoctial America.— The Peculiarities and Animals of 

 each. — General Remarks upon the Climate and Soil of Brazil, with 

 reference to the Distribution of its Animals. — American Genera of 

 Quadrupeds and Birds . - - - .56 



