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Family 17.— :MUSCICAPID^. (44 Genera, 283 Species.) 

 General Distribution. 



The Muscicapidse, or Flycatchers (Muscicapinse and Myiagrinse 

 of the Hand List, omitting Cochoa and including Pogonocichla) 

 form an extensive family of usually small-sized and often bright- 

 coloured birds, very abundant in the warmer regions of the Old 

 "World and Australia, but becoming scarce as we approach the 

 temperate and colder regions. Tliey are wholly absent from 

 North and South America. The genera, many of which are not 

 well defined, are distributed as follows : — 



Peltops (1 sp.), Papuan Islands ; Monarcha (28 sp.), Moluccas 

 to the Carolines and Marquesas Islands, Australia and Tas- 

 mania ; Zeucophantes (1 sp.). New Guinea ; Bufalis (4 sp.), 

 Ethiopian and Palfearctic regions, Moluccas and Formosa ; 3Ius- 

 cicapa (12 sp.), Europe and Africa; MuscicaiJula (6 sp.), India to 

 Western China; Alseonax (1 sp.), South Africa; Erythrosterna 

 (7 sp.), Europe to China and Java ; Nnvtonia (1 sp.), Madagascar ; 

 Xanthoj'tygia (2 sp.), Japan, China, Malacca; Hcmipus (1 sp.), 

 India and Ceylon ; Pycnophrys (1 sp.), Java ; Hyliota (2 sp.). 

 West Africa ; Erytlirocercus (2 sp.), West Africa and Zambesi ; 

 Micrceca (6 sp.), Australia, Timor, and Papuan Islands ; Artomyias 

 (2 sp.). West Africa ; Pseudobias (1 sp.), Madagascar ; Hemiche- 

 lidon (3 sp.), the Oriental region and North China ; Smithornis 

 (2 sp.), West and South Africa ; Megabias (1 .sp.). West Africa ; 

 Cassinia (2 sp.), West Africa; Bias, (1 sp.), Tropical Africa; Niltava 

 (3 sp.), Himalayas to West China; Cyornis (16 sp.), the whole 

 Oriental region ; Cyavoptila (1 sp.), Japan, China, Hainan ; 

 Eumyias (7 sp.), India to South China, Ceylon, and Sumatra ; 

 (\2Vi and 1216) SiptUa (8 sp.), North India, Formosa, Timor ; An- 

 thipes (1 sp.), Nepal ; Seisura (5 sp.), Australia and Austro- 



