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IN the second and third of his lectures On the Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia, delivered on the Tuesday and Friday of last week, Mr. Sclater described in detail the ranges of the different orders of terrestrial mammals; and to avoid unnecessary repetition, employed the well-known system of division of the earth's surface, proposed before the Linnean Society in 1857, from a study of the bird class, according to which there are six regions—(1)The Palæarctic, including Europe, Africa north of the Atlas Mountains, and Northern Asia. (2) The Ethiopian, including all Africa south of the Atlas Mountains, and the southern part of Arabia. (3) The Indian, including Asia south of the Himalayas, Southern China, and the Indian Archipelago. (4) The Australian, including Australasia. (5) The Nearctic, including North America down to the centre of Mexico; and (6) The Neotropical, including South and Central America. The following is a summary of his remarks.
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The Lectures at the Zoological Society's Gardens . Nature 9, 503–504 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009503a0
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