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MR. WALLACE, in his great work “The Geographical Distribution of Animals,” divides the Oriental or Indian region of Mr. Sclater into four sub-regions, of which Java, Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands form one, which he calls the Indo-Malayan. In his discussion of the Indo-Malayan sub-region Mr. Wallace recognizes several subdivisions of it, and treats of the Philippine Islands as one of the most important of these. Though acknowledging the existence of divisions of his sub-regions, he failed to give them technical names, as being at that time uncalled for.
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STEERE, J. The Philippine Islands . Nature 39, 37–38 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039037a0
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