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256 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [part iv.
(Pycnonotidse), while one genus, usually placed in it {Myio'phonus)
seems to agree better with Enicurus among the Cinclidse. The
genera here admitted into the thrush family are the following, the
numbers prefixed to some of the genera indicating their position
in Gray's Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds :—
^1143^ Brachypteryx (8 sp.), Nepaul to Java and Ceylon (this
may belong to the Timaliid^) ; Turdus (100 sp.) has the range of
the whole family, abounding in the Palaearctic, Oriental and
Neotropical regions, while it is less plentiful in the Nearctic
and Ethiopian, and very scarce in the Australian; (^^^) Orcocincla
(11 sp.), Pa]a?arctic and Oriental regions, Australia and Tas-
mania ;
(^*-) RJiodinocichla (1 sp.), Venezuela ;
(1 sp.), Honduras ;
(^*^) Melanoptila
(^^"^ ^^^) Catliarus (10 sp.) Mexico to Equador ;
^949 gso'^ Margarop>s (4 sp.), Hayti and Porto Eico to St. Lucia •
^951^ j^csGcichla (1 sp.), Tristan d'Acunha; (^^^) GeocicUa (8 sp.),
India to Formosa and Celebes, Timor and North Australia;
^954 955^ Monticola (8 sp.). Central Europe to South Africa and to
China, Philippine Islands, Gilolo and Java ;
(^^^) Oroccetes (3 sp.),
Himalayas and N. China ; Zoothera (3 sp.) Himalayas, Aracan,
Java, and Lombok ; Mimus (20 sp.) Canada to Patagonia, West
Indies and Galapagos ; i^"-) Oreoscoptes (1 sp.), Eocky Mountains
and Mexico; (^^^) Melanotis (2 sp.), South Mexico and Guatemala
(^*^*) Galeoscop)tes (1 sp.), Canada and Eastern United States to
Cuba and Panama (^^^
; ^ Mimocichla (5 sp.), Greater Antilles;
^967 968^ Harporhjnchus (7 sp.). North America, from the great
lakes to Mexico ; Cinclocerthia (3 sp.), Lesser Antilles ;
(^'^)
Rhampliocinclus (1 sp.). Lesser Antilles ; Cha;tops (3 sp.), South
Africa; Cossypha = Bessonornis (15 sp.) Ethiopian region and
Palestine,
Neotropical
sub-eegions.
Family 2.—SYLVIID^. (74 Genera, 640 Species.)
General Distribution.
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