. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 368 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoolofiy. Vol. 138, No. 6. Figure 13. Sketch map of Southwestern Asio (with od|acent areas of Europe and Africa). The heavy interrupted line repre- sents Wallace's (1876) boundary of the Mediterranean Sub-Region. Shaded areas represent zoogeographical regions after Bodenheimer (1956). (1-4) Sub-Regions of the Paloearctic region: (1) Euro-Siberian Colchis Province; (2) Mediterranean; (3) Irano-Turanian; (4) Saharo-Sindian. (5) Sub-Regions of the Poloeotroplc Region. Palestine, and its
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 368 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoolofiy. Vol. 138, No. 6. Figure 13. Sketch map of Southwestern Asio (with od|acent areas of Europe and Africa). The heavy interrupted line repre- sents Wallace's (1876) boundary of the Mediterranean Sub-Region. Shaded areas represent zoogeographical regions after Bodenheimer (1956). (1-4) Sub-Regions of the Paloearctic region: (1) Euro-Siberian Colchis Province; (2) Mediterranean; (3) Irano-Turanian; (4) Saharo-Sindian. (5) Sub-Regions of the Poloeotroplc Region. Palestine, and its basic concepts are ac- cepted by contemporary Israeli botanists (thus Zohary, 1955; Zohary and Feinbrun- Dothan, 1966). Among zoologists. Boden- heimer (1935, 1937, 1953, and 1956) has been its chief advocate. As Figure 13 shows, according to this arrangement, the area dealt with in this paper is divided between the Irano-Tvuan- ian and the Saharo-Sindian sub-regions. It must, of course, be realized that in nature there are usually no sharp bound- aries between adjacent zoogeographical regions or sub-regions, but. rather, very broad zones of overlap. In one respect, Bodenheimer's (Eig's) arrangement is a revision to Sclater's (1858) original proposal. In Africa and Southwestern Asia, Bodenheimer's line separating the Mediterranean and Irano- Turanian sub-regions, on the one hand, from the Saharo-Sindian Sub-Region, on the other, nearl\- coincides with Sclater's border between the Palearctic Region, on the one hand, and the Ethiopian and Indian regions, on the other (Bartholomew, ct ciL, 1911: pi. 2). As a matter of fact, in Southwestern Asia and North Africa, at least, Bodenheimer's map is in much better agreement with recent maps of soils, rain- fall, and vegetation (, Oxford Univ. Press, 1960) than is Wallace's Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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