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ZOOLOGICAL GEOGKAPHY. 



[rAiiT III. 



Greater Antilles. They are beautifully-colourecl birds, — green 

 above, red and white beneath, and are exceedingly active in their 

 movements. To the right ai-e a pair of small humming-birds 

 {Sporadinus ricordi), not very remarkable in this beautiful 

 family, but introduced here because they belong to a genus which 

 is confined to the Greater Antilles. 



Table of distribution of West-Indian Birds. — As the birds of 

 the "West- Indian islands are particularly interesting and their 

 peculiarities comparatively little known, we give here a table 

 of the genera of land-birds., compiled from all available sources of 

 information. Owing to the numerous independent observations 

 on which it is founded, the discrepancies of nomenclature, and 

 uncertainty in some cases as to the locality of species, it can 

 only be looked upon as an approximative summary of the 

 existing materials on Antillean ornithology. 



TABLE OF THE RESIDENT LAND-BIRDS OF THE ANTILLES. 



Note. — Genera confined to the West Indies are in Italics. An {a) after (1) indicates a 

 species common to two islands : but where there are two or more species in an island, or 

 the localities are doubtful, this indication cannot be given. All species not otherwise 

 noted are peculiar to the Antilles. 



