CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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to Bolivia and Brazil ; Nonnula (3 sp.), Amazon and Columbia ; 

 Monasa (7 sp.), Costa Eica to Brazil; Chelidoptera (2 sp.), Colum- 

 bia and Guiana to Brazil. 



Family 61.— GALBULID^. (6 Genera, 19 Species.) 

 General Distribution. 



The Galbulidae, or Jacamars, are small slender birds, of gener- 

 ally metallic plumage ; somewhat resembling in form the Bee- 

 paters of the Old "World but less active. They have the same 

 general distribution as the last family, but they do not occur 

 west of the Equatorial Andes. The genera are : — 



Galbula (9 sp.), Guatemala to Brazil and Bolivia ; Ui^ogalha (2 

 sp.), Guiana and the lower Amazon; Brachygalha (4 sp.), Venezuela 

 to Brazil and Bolivia ; Jacamaralcyon (1 sp.), Brazil ; Jacamerops 

 (2 sp.), Panama to the Amazon ; Galbalcyrhynchus (1 sp.), Upper 

 Amazon. 



Family 62.— COEACIID^. (3 Genera, 19 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



The EoUers are a family of insectivorous birds allied to the 

 Bee-eaters, and are very charactei istic of the Ethiopian and 

 Oriental regions ; but one species (Coracias garmla) spreads over 

 the Palsearctic region as far north as Sweden and the Altai 

 mountains, while the genus Eurystomus reaches the Amoor 

 valley, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The distribution ot 

 the genera is as follows : — 



Coracias (8 sp.), the whole Ethiopian region, the Oriental 



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