CHAP. XI.] 
THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 
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TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION. 
In drawing up these tables showing the distribution of various 
classes of animals in the Ethiopian Region, the following sources 
of information have been chiefly relied on, in addition to the 
general treatises, monographs, and catalogues, used for the Fourth 
Part of this work 
Mammalia,— Blanford’s Abyssinia ; Peters’s Mozambique ; 
Heuglin and Schweinfurth for North East Africa ; Grandidier 
Schlegel, &c., for Madagascar; the local lists given by Mr. 
Andrew Murray ; numerous papers by Fraser, Gray, Kirk, 
Mivart, Peters, Sclater, and Speke; and a MS. list of Bovidse 
from Sir Victor Brooke. 
Birds . — Finsch and Hartlaub for East Africa; Heuglin for 
North-East Africa; Blanford for Abyssinia; Layard for South 
Africa ; Hartlaub for West Africa ; Dolirn for Princes Island ; 
Andersson for Damaraland ; and papers by Gurney, Hartlaub, 
Kirk, Newton, Peters, Sharpe, Sclater, Schlegel, and Pollen 
and a MS. list of Madagascar Birds from Mr. Sharpe. 
