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CHAP, xviii.] BIRDS. 261
Australia and Africa. The Indo-Chinese sub-region is the head
quarters of the family, whence it diminishes rapidly in all
directions in variety of both generic and specific forms. Viscount
Walden has kindly assisted me in the determination of the
limits of this family, as to which there is still much difference
of opinion. The distribution of the genera here admitted is as
follows ; and as the genera are widely scattered in the Hand
List, reference numbers are prefixed in every case.
^1023 - 1026 1008-^ PomatorMnus (27sp.), the whole Oriental region
(excluding Philippines), Australia and New Guinea ;
Pterohinus (3 sp.), North China, East Thibet ;
(^•^-^)
(^^^a loso) j^j^la-
cocircus (9 sp.). Continental India and Ceylon, Arabia, Nubia
^1031^ Chatarrhcea (5 sp.), Abyssinia, Palestine, India, Nepal,
Burmah, and Philippines ;
lon ;
Q^^^) Acantho^tila (1 sp.), Nepal ;
{^^^^) Layardia (3 sp.), India and Cey-
Q^^^) Cinclosoma (4 sp.),
Australia and Tasmania : Q^^^ '^^^^) Craterojpus (18 sp.), all Africa,
Persia ;
Q^^"^) Hypergerus (1 sp.), West Africa : (^^^) Cichladusa
(3 sp.), Tropical Africa ; Q^^^) Garrulax (23 sp.), the Oriental
region (excluding Philippines) ;
to East Thibet, Sumatra, Formosa ;
(}^^^) JavJhocincla (10 sp.), Nepal,
;
(^^^^ ^^^'^) Gampsorhynchus (2
(^^^^ -
sp.), Himalayas (^°*^) Grammatoptila (1 sp.) North India ;
;
1045^ Trochalopteron (24 sp.), aU India to China and Formosa (^°*®)
;
Actinodura (4 sp.), Nepal to Burmah, 3,000 - 10,000 feet ;
Pellorneum (4 sp.), Nepal to Ceylon, Tenasserim ;
(12 sp.), Malaya ;^
lon ;
(1°*^)
(^^^^ ^^^^) Timalia
(^i^^) Dumetia (2 sp.). Central India and Cey-
Q^*^'^) Stachyris (6 sp.), Nepal to Assam, Sumatra, Formosa
("^) Pyctorhis (3 sp.), India to Ceylon and Burmah; (^i^^) Mixornis
(8 sp.), Himalayas and Malaya ;
Q^^'^) Malacopteron (3 sp.), Malaya
Q-^^^ ^^®^) Akippe (15 sp.), Ceylon and South India, Hima-
;
layas to Aracan, Malaya, Formosa, New Guinea (^^^°) Macronus
;
(2 sp.), Malaya; Q-^'^'^) Cacopi7to (5 sp.), Malaya ;
Q^'^^) Trichastoma
(11 sp.), Nepal, Burmah, Malaya, Celebes; (^"^) Iffapothera (6 sp.),
Malaya ;
Q-^"^^) Drymocataphus (8 sp.), Burmah, Malaya, Ceylon,
^ The term " Malaya " is used here to include the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, a district to which many species and genera are
confined. " Malay Archipelago '' will be used to include both Indo-Malaya
and Austro-Malaya.