282 The American Naturalist. [Mareh, 
ZOOLOGY. 
Allen’s Faunal Areas of North America.—In a paper on 
the Distribution of North American Mammals, Mr. J. A. Allen gives 
the following tabular synopsis of the faunal areas of North America: 
Realms {xo North E Papiiblen 
American Tropical. 
North American. < North Temperate Realm. 
re ge | Cenal A | American.) _ american Tropical Realm. 
Subregions { Wand Na \ ==North American Region. 
Provinces { ey } ==Warm Temperate Region. 
Appalachian. : : 
; Austroriparian. l —Humid Province. 
Subprovinces Ci yi 
| Sonoran. 5 } =aria Province. 
Great Plains. 
| Grea Basin. } —campestian Subprovince, 
Pacific Coast 
( Barren Ground, X 
Alaskan-Arctic. \ Arctic. 
Districts 
Canadian | Cold Temperate. 
Faune 4 Sitkan. 
hanian. 
Carolinian, } Humid Warm Temperate 
Louisianian, 
Floridian, : 
| Tamaulipan. } Tropical, 
(Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Dec., 1892.) 
The Madagascar Fauna.—At a recent meeting of the Royal 
Geographical Society, Canon Tristram made the following remarks oD 
the Fauna of Madagascar : 
“Madagascar has an extraordinary natural history. One would 
suppose, from its position, that this would be African, but it, like its 
people, is thoroughly un-African. The monkeys and lemurs of Mada- 
gasear are not to be found in Africa, while all the great African ani- 
mals of prey are absent. Among the lemurs is one known as the 
ayeaye, the formation of whose digits is unique. The botany is almost 4 
as peculiar. 
