Widely Distributed Animals

The familyof rat ,„ foniul : overy quartor, and bate in eTervm.!5 of t&e globe. on of the WS??" animal ore so widely clisirilnïr Among birds, the most extensivel are swallowa, kingfishere, pigeoim n cons, owls, rails, Bnipes, plovcrs v. duck, petrela, pelicaus, andgreb i of these are found in cach of Mr V i i lace's regions, and bIbo in each of ft? 8u1h1vÍ8Íoiis. Crows and swifts are ir vorBals excopt in New ZeaüJ cockoos except in the North ol x, i' Americn. Among reptiles, snakes 1" be mentioned as nearly coenji beingfonnd everywhere' pxcrpt in fel Zealand and the tropical islands of tl Pflciflc; while geckoes, or w;dl4izJ' ere obont only f rom the North of O A merica. Tofldit are disperged over H whole world excejjt Mudagascur x Zealand, and the PitpilSc idnudg' , frogs have the same arC-ft wiüi I