Tlr •:■ ulufl i- peculiar to :;, but only two split's — Menura 



alberti and Collyriocincla cerriniventris— are limited to it. 



\ This is the Boutheni extension of '■>. and with it is closely 



it..] 5; indeed, the latter may !"■ expanded as a Bouthern 



i two areas I and o, on the other hand, differ in 



import Beta from 6 and 7. Of the 71 genera 121 species there 



are t ibsent from 3; -l genera 52 Bpeciea absent 



from penera 66 Bpeciea absent from 7. In ."> there are 39 



absent. Genera absenl in 3, Pycnoptilus, 



1 Jamanthns ; in 6, Oriolus, Myiagra, Bphennra, 



odes, Atrichia; in 7, Pycnoptilns, Menura; in 5, JEgintha, 



Ptilonorhynchus, Piezorhynchus, Menura. 



aus peculiar to this area is Pycnoptilus, thi 

 M >rhraa melanophrys, Ptilotis cassidix, Menura superba, Menura 

 •mis 08culans, Pycnoptilus floccosus. 



I be insular area of 4. Of 34 genera 55 species, it does 

 not appear to hold a genus not common with i. unless Acanthornia 

 (of I.' other authors) stands alone. The relation- 



ship i- no1 _ with »'». tor while l genus 1 1 sp i .ot in 



4, there are I genera 29 species not found in <i. 



"i 6 to •"' in number of genera and Bpeciea (36 genera 

 103 9] practically the Banie aa thai of I too g ra 90 



era absenl in <i. Myiagra, Oisticola, and Stipiturua 

 [all present in i . Peculiar to the island are 14 sp 



Apparently the relation is to 7. '.', and !. in that order. 

 The total number of genera is 65, species 1 17. Absent in 1 are 17 g 

 ■'>■> Bpeciea; in '.'. 11 genera 61 species; in 7, •'» genera -l bj 



in !. Drymacedu8, Xerophila, Oreoica, Entomophila, 

 Amytis ; in 9. Corcorax, I g Smicrornis, Stictoptera, Entomyza; 

 in 7. Eopsaltria, Meliornis, Acanthorhynchus, Pseudog 

 Chibia all in i . The -]„•,;,••> peculiar to this area are Xerophila 

 ilia and Mirafra secunda, 



I - i 18 65 g< nera and 126 species, and although it app ara 

 closely related to 6, it is closely related to 3. In this area 

 absent from 6; 10 g< aera \'-> sp 

 ' in '■'• : 1 ' absent in '.' ; 19 genera 69 sp 



absent in •_' ; 21 i,t in -l ; 26 genera 96 B] 



•ml: :;: >sent in 8. Lrea5is practically4. 



In tie- sepai • eas it will he noticed that the relationship 



and other areas is in the following order : s . L, !. -. 



owing tie- most marked difference, and <; the 



1 at r< lationahip appears to he to 6, then 



- I, 1, 8 in order. The boundary between 6 and 7 is not a strong 



Bathilda, Emblema, Aidemoe 

 absent from •';. Struthidea, Amytis, Drymacedus, 

 1 Entomophila; absent from 9, Lalage, Bmicrornis, 



Myiag 3] Ei tomyza : absenl from 2, Pteropod 



1 Si iganopleura ; absent from 



Entomophila, Emblema ; 

 soma, Acanthiza, Palcunculua, 

 - rioornis, Hylacola, Zosfc 

 o known The follow- 



Rhipidura albicauda, Amyti 

 • thus isabellinus, Xerophila uigricincta. 



