SwANTON] INDIAN OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 



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The Austrorarian Faunal Area : Occupying all of the remainder of the 



Gulf Stat and the South Atlantic States except the southernmost 



third of t' Floridian peninsula (4b). 



The Lower moran Faunal Area : Not entering into the section under con- 



sideratioibut indicated at the margin of the map toward the west (4a). 



Tropical Region : Including merely the southernmost third of the peninsula of 



Florida (5). 



In his bullet on Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States, 

 printed in 18£, Merriam thus epitomizes the characteristic animal 

 and plant life)f the above regions, omitting those of the Canadian 



Map 9. — Biotc areas in the Southeast (from the Fourth Provisional Zone Map of North 

 America ofthe U. S. Biological Survey, by C. Hart Merriam, Vernon Bailey, E. W. Nelson, 

 and E. A. reble, 1910). 



Zone, whch is of slight importance in the Southeast, and the two 

 Sonoran ireas, which are entirely beyond it : 



In the illeghanian faunal area the chestnut, walnut, oaks, and hickories of 

 the South meet and overlap the beech, birch, hemlock, and sugar maple of the 

 North; Us Southern mole and cottontail rabbit meet the Northern star-nosed 

 and Brewer's moles and varying hare, and the Southern bobwhite, Baltimore 

 oriole, bliebird, catbird, chewink, thrasher, and wood thrush live in or near 

 the haunfe of the bobolink, solitary vireo, and the hermit and Wilson's thrushes. 

 Several lative nuts, of which the beechnut, butternut, chestnut, hazelnut, 

 hickory nut, and walnut are most important, grow wild in this belt. Of 

 these, tie chestnut, hickory nut, and walnut come in from the South (Caro- 

 linian aiea) and do not extend much beyond the southern or warmer parts of 

 the Alleghanian area. (Merriam, 1898, pp. 20-21.) 



