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—;330 ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY. [part in.Zoological Characteristics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Himalayan Sub-region.—Taking this sub-region as a whole, we find it to be characterisedby 3 genera <strong>of</strong> mammalia (<strong>with</strong>out counting bats), and44 genera <strong>of</strong> land-birds, which are altoge<strong>the</strong>r peculiar to itand by 13 genera <strong>of</strong> mammalia and 36 <strong>of</strong> birds, which itpossesses in common <strong>with</strong> <strong>the</strong> Malayan sub-region; andbesides <strong>the</strong>se it has almost all <strong>the</strong> genera before enumeratedas " Oriental," and several o<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>of</strong> wide range, more especiallya number <strong>of</strong> Palrearetic genera which appear in <strong>the</strong> higherHimalayas. <strong>The</strong> names <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> more characteristic genera areas follows :Peculiar Himalo-Chinese Genera.Mammalia.— Urva, Arctonyx, JElurus.Birds. — Suya, Sorites, Chaimarrhornis, Tarsiger, Oreicola,Acanthoptila, Grammatoptila, Trochaloptcron,Actinodura, Sibia,Suthora, Paradoxomis, Chlenasicus, Tesia, Rimator, sEgithaliscus,Cephalopyrus, Liothrix, Siva, Minla, Proparus, Cutia, Yuhina,Ixtdus, Myzornis, Erpornis, Hemixus, Chibia, Niltava, Anthipes,Chelidorhynx, Urocissa, Pachyglossa, Hctcrura, Hosmatospiza,Ampeliceps, Saroglossa, Psarisomus, Serilophus, Vivia, Hyopicus,Gicinulus, Aceros,Ceriomis.Genera common to <strong>the</strong> Himalo-Chinese and MalayanSub-regions.Mammalia. — Hylobates, Nycticebus, Viverricula, Prionodon,Arctitis, Pagama, Arctogale, Cuon, Gymnopus, Aonyx, Helictis,Rhinoceros, Nemorhedus, Rhizomys.Birds.— Oreocincla, Notodela, Janthocincla, Timalia, Stachyris,Mixornis, Trichastoma, JEnicurus, Pncepyga, Melanochlora, Allotrius,Microscelis, Iole, Analcipus, Cochoa, Rhringa, Xanthopygia,Hylocharis, Cissa, Temnurus, Cryjjsirhina, Chalcosletha, Anthreptes,Chalcoparia, Cymbirhynchus, Hydrornis, Sasia, Venilia,Indicator, Carcincutes, Lyncornis, Macropygia, Argusianus Polyplectron,Ruplocamus, Phodilus.Plate VII. Scene in Nepal, <strong>with</strong> Characteristic HimalayanAnimals.— Our illustration contains figures <strong>of</strong> two mammals

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