SECTION XIV.-SUMMARY AND DEDUCTIONS

Table of the genera of the Order Ungulata with the numbers of species belonging to the great Zoological Regions.

DEDUCTIONS

1. The Order Ungulata contains about 306 known species, arranged in seventy-one genera and thirteen families.

2. Ungulates are found all over the earth except in the Australian Region. In the Malagasy Sub-region there is but one species, which may possibly be a recent introduction.

3. Ungulates are most abundant in the Ethiopian Region, where 156 species occur. Of the great family Bovidae 138 out of 200 known species are restricted to this Region.

4. There are no Bovine Ungulates in the Neotropical Region, and only five (all nearly allied to recent or extinct Palearctic forms) in the Nearctic Region.

5. In the Neotropical Region there are representatives of only four out of the thirteen families of Ungulates— Tapirs, Deer, Camels, and Peccaries.

6. There are no Deer (Cervida) in the Ethiopian Region.

7. The New World has only 38 species of Ungulates against 270 found in the Old World.