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MANY naturalists have already drawn attention to the Indian affinities in the African fauna; in other words, the zoological relationship between the Oriental and Ethiopian regions. The late Dr. Stoliczka has pointed this out in the Malayan ornithology; Mr. Wallace has described the same thing in the mammalia and birds of West Africa, these possessing “a special Oriental or even Malayan element”. He has also drawn attention to the Oriental element in the Ethiopian reptiles and amphibia, and to the many cases of the same in the South African fauna. Mr. Blandford has treated of the “African element in the fauna of India”, more particularly as regards the mammalia; and the late Mr. Blyth has shown the ancient date of this relationship from the evidence afforded by the Siwâlik deposits. Mr. Murray has even inclined to the opinion that the Indo-Malayan region should be included with that of Africa, south of the Sahara.
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DISTANT, W. Oriental Affinities in the Ethiopian Insect-Fauna. Nature 17, 282 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017282b0
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