. Geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface. Over all, the white-handed Gibbon{llylohatrs lor) swings and gambols among the topmost branchesof the forest. Rildilcs ayid Amphibia.—These are not sufficiently known tobe of much use for our present purpose. ]\Iost of the generabelong to the continental parts of the Oriental region, or have awide range. Of snakes Jthahdosomcf, Tyj)hlocalamns, Tdragono-so7)u(, Acrochordus, and Atropos, are the most peculiar, and thereare several peculiar ge
. Geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface. Over all, the white-handed Gibbon{llylohatrs lor) swings and gambols among the topmost branchesof the forest. Rildilcs ayid Amphibia.—These are not sufficiently known tobe of much use for our present purpose. ]\Iost of the generabelong to the continental parts of the Oriental region, or have awide range. Of snakes Jthahdosomcf, Tyj)hlocalamns, Tdragono-so7)u(, Acrochordus, and Atropos, are the most peculiar, and thereare several peculiar genera of llomalopsidie. Of Oriental genera,Cytindropliis, Xenojjelles, Calamarift, Ify2)strhina, Fsammody-nastis, (fO)ryosom(i, Trayopx, Dij)>^ct^, PareuFi, Pytlioii, Bungarus,Nnjn, and (^itllophis are abundant; as well as Simotes, Ahiidxs,7ropidonotus, and Dcndrophis, which are widely lizards Hydvomunia and Gcclo ore common; there aremany isolated groups ol Scincida; whdc DrWo, Caloles, andmany forms of Agamidu, some of which aic peculiar, abound. AmoiiL: the An)])hil)ia, loads and frogs of I ho genera Jlficr/tyla, i ILATE A MALAYAN FOREST, WITH ITS CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS. iMiAi. XII.] TIM: OlUKNTAL lllOCUON. 341 K(f!oj)hr}/)n(.% Ansonia, and pHCvdohnfo^ are jicculinr: uliilc McrfaJnpJniif^, Lvabu^, ]\Ji(ic<)p]u);(S, lliat tliey offer valuable indications of zoo-geo-grajtliical albnily ; and they particularly well exhibit thesharply defined limits of tlic region, a large number of Orientaland even Ethiopian genera extending eastward as far as Javaand Borneo, but very rarely indeed sending a single speciesfurtlier cast, to Celebes or the ^Moluccas. Thirteen families offresli-water fishes are found in the Indo-Malay sub-region. Ofthese the Scienida? and Symbrancliidse have mostly a wide1 ange in the tropics. Ophiocephalidog are exclusively Oriental,reaching Borneo and the Philippine islands. The ^N
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