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CHAP. XVIII.] BIRDS. 309
being to Madagascar at the time of the approximation of that
sub-region to Ceylon and Malaya. A later infusion of Oriental
forms took place probably by way of Arabia and Persia,
when those countries were more fertile and perhaps more extensive.
Australia has also received its cuckoos at a somewhat
late date, a few having reached the Austro-Malay Islands some-
what earlier.
The classification of the family is somewhat unsettled. For
the American genera I follow Messrs. Sclater and Salvin ; and,
for those of the Old World, Mr. Sharpe's suggestive paper in the
Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1873, p. 600. The following
is the distribution of the various genera :
^2195^ PJicenicophdes (1 sp.), Ceylon ; (^^^) Bhamphococcyx (1
sp.), Celebes; (^i^) Rhinococcyx (1 sp.), Java; (2i96pt- and 2203)
Bhopodytes (6 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon, Hainan, and Malaya
^2203 pt.
-J PQliococcyx (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; (^^^^)
Dasylophus (1 sp.), Philippine Islands ;
(^^^^) Lepidogrammus (1
sp.), Philippine Islands ; P''^) Zanclostomus (1 sp.), Malaya
(2201) Ceuthmochares (2 sp.). Tropical and South Africa and
Madagascar ;
(2202) Taccocua (4 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon and
(^^o*) Bhinortha (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo
Malacca ;
—
(2199) Carpococcyx (1 sp.), Borneo and Sumatra ;
(4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ;
(2207) Cochlothraustes (1 sp.), Madagascar;
;
;
{^^^'^) Neomoiphus
(^^os 2206) ^^^^ (iq sp.), Madagascar;
(^221) Centropus (35
^p.), Tropical and South Africa, the whole Oriental region,
Austro-Malaya and Australia ;
to Antilles and Pennsylvania ;
Paraguay ;
{^^^^) Crotophaga (3 sp.), Brazil
(^212) Quira (1 sp.), Brazil and
(^^o^) Geococcyx (2 sp.), Guatemala to Texas and Cali-
fornia; {^^^^)I)romococcyx(2 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; (^^^^) Diplopterus
(1 sp.), Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil ;
Greater Antilles ;
(^^os) Saurothera (4 sp.).
(^^i^) Hyetornis (2 sp.), Jamaica and Hayti
(2215) Piaya (3 sp.), Mexico to West Ecuador and Brazil ;
(2218)
Morococcyx (1 sp.), Costa Pica to Mexico ;
(221*) Goccygus (10 sp.),
La Plata to Antilles, Mexico and Pennsylvania, Cocos Island ;
(2227) Cuculiis (22 sp.), Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions,
to Moluccas and Australia ;
(222^) Caliecthrus (1 sp.), Papuan
(2230-2232^ Caeomantis (15 sp.), Oriental and Australian
Islands ;