Zoo Geography of India and South East Asia

Pp. (12), 459; 41 text-figures and maps.  Publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in white on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo.  The present book is an attempt to highlight the faunal richness of the Oriental region.  The book explains in a lucid manner as to how different vertebrate animals have radiated in the in the Eastern archipelago of Asia, the Indochinese peninsula and in subcontinental India.  Distributional range of hundreds of species of freshwater fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals have been arranged systematically.  The book not only accounts for numerous faunal assemblages but also reminds us of the need for conservation of so many splendid South East Asian species of animals which are on the verge of extinction.  No ownership marks.