WCP2319

[1]

Magd[alene] Coll[ege]

11 May 1875.

My dear Wallace,

I am again firstly obliged to you & I return the list you enclosed me having copied it. I think it more than confirms the view I have taken — for giving the Nearctic "Region" full benefit of the 36 genera you name. I find the corresponding number of genera common to both "Regions" to be 122 — + 72 genera of Water birds. The 13 genera peculiar to Nearctic & the 80[?] [illeg.] characteristic [2] of it — the 3 others you name bear but a small proportion to 122 common & I think prove the "Region" to be a <good> subregion of the whole American continent — but nothing more.

<However> I have said before I mean to let the Nearctic "Region" stand though I have great misgivings as to the propriety of doing so.

Mesites I have never seen — they seen to have it only in Paris — it is not (according to my latest information) either in London or Leyden.

Turdus goudoti = Tylas eduardi [Madagascar thrush]

[3] Vernaux who described the, first, <drew> the type of the second <hen> & admitted that it was so.

I hope to send further list of Palaearctic genera by the time you want it — but visitors have been unusually numerous & I make but slow progress.

Yours very truly

Alfred Newton [signature]

My Patagonian subregion has according to tables made for me by <Salerin> 30 peculiar genera of Land birds — against 13 peculiar to Nearctic "Region"! Antillean Subregion 27 peculiar genera!!

1. Newton, Alfred (1829-1908). English zoologist and ornithologist.