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280 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [part IV.
The Vireonidse, or Greenlets, are a family of small fly-catching
birds wholly restricted to the American continent, where they
range from Paraguay to Canada. They are allied to the Mniotiltidse
and perhaps also to the Australian Pachycephalidse. Only
two of the genera, with about a dozen species, inhabit the
Nearctic region. The distribution of the genera is as follows :
Vireosylvia (13 sp.), Venezuela to Mexico, the Antilles, the
Eastern States and Canada ;
—
Vireo (14 sp.). Central America and
the Antilles to Canada ; Neochloe (1 sp.), Mexico ; Hylophilus
(20 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; Laletes (1 sp.), Jamaica ; Vireolanius
(5 sp.), Amazonia to Mexico ; Cychlorhis (9 sp.), Paraguay to
Mexico.
Neotropical
sub-reoions.
Family 29.—AMPELID^. (4 Genera, 9 Species.)
Nearctic
Sub-regions.
General Distribution.
Pal^arctic
Sub-regions.
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Ethiopian
Sub-regions.
Oriental
Sub-regions.
Adstralian
Sub-regions.
The Ampelidse, represented in Europe by the waxwing, are a
small family, characteristic of the Nearctic and Palsearctic regions,
but extending southward to Costa Rica and the West
Indian islands. The genera are distributed as follows :
p39^ Am'pclis (3 sp.), the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions, and
southward to Guatemala; Q^^'^) Ptilogonys (2 sp.), Central
America ;
Q^'^) Dulus (2 sp.). West Indian Islands ;
pe;pla (1 sp.), Mexico and the Gila Valley.
—
Q-^^^) Phceno-
Family 30.—HIRUNDINID^. ( 9 Genera, 91 Species.)
Neotropical
Sub-regions.
General Distribution.