. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. 274 SCIENCE OF GEOGRAPHY, Part U. tion has, indeed, been generally adopted by geographers, merely from tlie relative positionsof these islands. On the zoology of New Holland it is scarcely necessary, in this place, to expatiate. Allnaturalists concur in viewing this insular continent as the chief metropolis of a peculiar cre-ation of animals; whose limits on one side we have already traced, and whose range on theother extends over the innumerable islands scattered in th
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. 274 SCIENCE OF GEOGRAPHY, Part U. tion has, indeed, been generally adopted by geographers, merely from tlie relative positionsof these islands. On the zoology of New Holland it is scarcely necessary, in this place, to expatiate. Allnaturalists concur in viewing this insular continent as the chief metropolis of a peculiar cre-ation of animals; whose limits on one side we have already traced, and whose range on theother extends over the innumerable islands scattered in the great Pacific Ocean. The Menura Superba {fii^- 83.) is the most remarkable gal-linaceous bird of this range. The Australianprovince is thus in full accordance with the dis-tribution assigned to the Malay variety of ourI species: its connexion with Asiatic zoology isunquestionable; but we have no means of judg-ing into which of the three remaining divisionsit blends, at its opposite extremity. Of the birdspeculiar to those remote clusters of islands ad-joinmg the north-west coast of America we arecompletely ignorant; n
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