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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV, 



Tlie Vireonidie, or Greenlets, are a family of small fly-catching 

 birds wholly restricted to the American continent, where they 

 range from Paraguay to Canada. They are allied to the Mniotil- 

 tidfe and perhaps also to the Australian Pachycephalidse. Only 

 two of the genera, with about a dozen species, inhabit the 

 Nearctic region. The distribution of the genera is as follows : — 



Vireosylvia (13 sp.), Venezuela to Mexico, the Antilles, the 

 Eastern States and Canada ; Vireo (14 sp.). Central America and 

 the Antilles to Canada ; NeocJiloe (1 sp.), Mexico ; Hylophilus 

 (20 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; Laletes (1 sp.), Jamaica ; Vircolanius 

 (5 sp.), Amazonia to Mexico ; Cychlorhis (9 sp.), Paraguay to 

 Mexico. 



Family 29.— AMPELID^. (4 Genera, 9 Species.) 



General Distribtjtion. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Nearctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Pal,earctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. 



Oriental 

 Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



3 4 1.2. 3. A 1.2.3.4 



The Ampelidse, represented in Europe by the waxwing, are a 

 small family, characteristic of the Nearctic and Palsearctic re- 

 gions, but extending southward to Costa Rica and the West 

 Indian islands. The genera are distributed as follows : — 



^1539^ jimpclis (3 sp.), the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions, and 

 southward to Guatemala ; Q^^^) Ptilogonys (2 sp.). Central 

 America ; Q*^~) Dulus (2 sp.), West Indian Islands ; Q^^^) Phmno- 

 pepla (1 sp.), Mexico and the Gila Valley. 



Family 30.— HIEUNDINID^. ( 9 Genera, 91 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



