neotoma

[Gr. neo=to swim, and tomē =a cutting.] IMG:content-1640.png:[blocks in formation] Zool .: Dr. Sclater's name for a zoological region, embracing South America, the Antilles, and trop ical North America. It po e es more peculiar families of vertebrates and genera of birds than any other region. Neither Prof. Huxley's suggested alteration Austro-Columbia, nor Dr. Sclater's new term Dendrogæa, appears to be an improvement. (Wallace: Geog. Dist . Animals , i. 79.)