CHAPTER XIV.

THE NEOTROPICAL REGION.

General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region (p. 5)--Distinctive Characters of Neotropical Mammalia (p. 6)--Of Neotropical Birds (p. 7)-- Neotropical Reptiles (p. 9)--Fresh-water Fishes (p. 12)--Insects (p. 13) --Coleoptera (p. 15)--Land Shells (p. 19)--Marine Shells (p. 20)-- Brazilian Sub-region (p. 21)--Its Mammalia (p. 23)--Its Birds (p. 24)-- Islands of Tropical South America, Galapagos (p. 29)--Chilian Sub-region (p. 36)--Birds (p. 38)--Reptiles and Amphibia (p. 40)--Fresh-water Fishes (p. 42)--Lepidoptera (p. 42)--Coleoptera (p. 44)--Islands of South Temperate America (p. 49)--Mexican Sub-region (p. 51)--Mammalia and Birds (p. 52)--Reptiles and Fishes (p. 54)--Insects (p. 55)--Relations of the Mexican Sub-region to the North and South American Continents (p. 57) --Islands of the Mexican Sub-region (p. 59)--The Antillean Sub-region (p. 60)--Its Mammalia (p. 62)--Its Birds (p. 64)--Table of the Resident Land Birds of the Antilles (p. 68)--Reptiles (p. 72)--Insects (p. 73)-- Land Shells (p. 75)--Past History of the Antilles (p. 78)--Summary of the Past History of the Neotropical Region (p. 80)--Table I. Families of Animals inhabiting the Neotropical Region (p. 85)--Table II. Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of the Neotropical Region (p. 91) 1-113