| X | | |Oriental region
187. Spilornis rufipectus | X | X | |
188. Butastur liventer | X | | |Java, Timor
189. ,, indicus | X | | X |India, Java
190. Haliastur leucosternus | X | | |Moluccas, New
| | | |Guin.
191. Milvus affinis | X | | |Australia
192. Elanus hypoleucus | X | | |? Java, Borneo
193. Pernis ptilorhyncha (var. | | | |
celebensis) | X | | |(Var. Java, &c.)
194. Baza erythrothorax | X | X | |
195. Falco severus | X | | |All Archipel.
196. Cerchneis moluccensis | X | | |Java, Moluccas
197. Polioaetus humilis | X | | |India, Malaya
| | | |
STRIGIDAE. | | | |
198. Athene punctulata | X | | |
199. ,, ochracea | X | | |
200. Scops magicus | X | | |Amboyna, &c.?
201. ,, menadensis | X | | |Flores,
| | | |Madagascar
202. Ninox japonicus | X | | |China, Japan
*203. ,, scutulata | | | X |Malacca
| | |(Salv.)|
204. Strix rosenbergi | X | | |
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CHAPTER XXI

ANOMALOUS ISLANDS: NEW ZEALAND

Position and Physical Features of New Zealand--Zoological Character of
New Zealand--Mammalia--Wingless Birds Living and Extinct--Recent
Existence of the Moa--Past Changes of New Zealand deduced from its
Wingless Birds--Birds and Reptiles of New Zealand--Conclusions from the
Peculiarities of the New Zealand Fauna.

The fauna of New Zealand has been so recently described, and its bearing on
the past history of the islands so fully discussed in my large work already
referred to, that it would not be necessary to introduce the subject again,
were it not that we now approach it from a somewhat different