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316 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [part iv.
fresh-water fish, and apparently the best fitted to sustain a varied
and numerous body of kingfishers.
The names of the genera, with their distribution and the
number of species in each, as given by Mr. Sharpe in his ex-
cellent monograph of the family, is as follows :
Alcedo (9 sp.), Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions (but
absent from Madagascar), and extending into the Austro-Malayan
sub-region ; Corythornis (3 sp.), the whole Ethiopian region
Alcyone (7 sp.), Australia and the Austro-Malayan sub-region,
with one species in the Philippine Islands ;
—
CeryU (13 sp.), absent
only from Australia, the northern half of the Palsearctic region,
and Madagascar ; Felargopsis (9 sp.), the whole Oriental region,
and extending to Celebes and Timor in the Austro-Malayan sub-
region ; Ceyx (11 sp.),the Oriental region and Austro-Malayan sub-
region, but absent from Celebes, and only one species in continental
India and Ceylon ; Ceycoims (1 sp.), Celebes ; Myioceyx (2 sp.).
West Africa; Ipsidina (4 sp.), Ethiopian region; Syma (2 sp.),
Papua and North Australia ; Halcyon (36 sp.), Australian,
Oriental, and Ethiopian regions, and the southern part of the
Palsearctic ; Dacelo (6 sp.), Australia and New Guinea ; Todir-
ham/phus (3 sp.). Eastern Pacific Islands only ; MonacTialcyon (1
sp.), Celebes ; Caridonax (1 sp.), Lombok and Flores ; Carcineutes
(2 sp.), Siam to Borneo and Java ; Tanysiptera (14 sp.), Moluccas
New Guinea, and North Australia (Plate X. Vol. I. p. 414)
Cittura (2 sp.), Celebes group ; Melidora (1 sp.), New Guinea.
Family 68.—BUCEEOTIDI^. (12 Genera, 50 Species.)
XrOTROPICAL
SiB-BEGIONS.
Nearotic
Sub-regions.
General Distribution.
Pal.«arctic
sub-region.s.
Ethiopiait
SUB-RtGIONS.
Oriental
Sdb-regions.
1 .2.3— 1.2.3.4
Australian
Sub-regions.
The Hornbills form an isolated group of generally large-sized
birds, whose huge bills form their most prominent feature.
They are popularly associated with the American Toucans, but
have no close relationship to them, and are now generally
;