316 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [rAUx iv. 



fresh-water fish, and apparently the best fitted to sustain a varied 

 and numerous body of kingfishers. 



The names of the genera, with their distribution and the 

 number of species in each, as given by INIr. Sharpe in his ex- 

 cellent monograph of the family, is as follows : — 



Alcedo (9 sp.), Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions (but 

 absent from Madagascar), and extending into the Austro-lMalayan 

 sub-region ; Corythornis (3 sp.), the whole Ethiopian region ; 

 Alcyone (7 sp.), Australia and the Austro-Malayan sub-region, 

 with one species in the Philippine Islands ; Ceryle (13 sp.), absent 

 only from Australia, the northern half of the Palsearctic region, 

 and Madagascar ; Pelargopsis (9 sp.), the whole Oriental region, 

 and extending to Celebes and Timor in the Austro-Malayan sub- 

 region ; Ceyx (11 sp.),the Oriental region and Austro-Malayan sub- 

 region, but absent from Celebes, and only one species in continental 

 India and Ceylon ; Ceycopsis (1 sp.), Celebes ; Myioceyx (2 sp.), 

 West Africa ; Ipsidina (4 sp.), Ethiopian region ; Syma (2 sp.), 

 Papua and Xorth Australia ; Halcyon (36 sp.), Australian, 

 Oriental, and Ethiopian regions, and the southern part of the 

 Palaearctic ; Dacelo (6 sp.), Australia and New Guinea ; Todir- 

 hamphus (3 sp.). Eastern Pacific Islands only ; Monachalcyon (1 

 sp.), Celebes ; Caridonccx (1 sp.), Lombok and Flores ; Carcineutes 

 (2 sp.), Siam to Borneo and Java ; Tanysiptera (14 sp.), Moluccas 

 New Guinea, and North Australia (Plate X. Vol. I. p. 414) ; 

 Cittura (2 sp.), Celebes group ; Melidora (1 sp.), New Guinea. 



Family 68.— BUCEEOTIDI^. (12 Genera, 50 Species.) 

 General Distribution. 



KrXJTROPICAL 

 Si'B-REGIONS. 



NEARCTIC I PaL/EARCTIC 

 SUB-BEGIONS. SUB-UEGIONS. 



Ethiopiajt 



SUB-RtGI0N8. 



Oriental 

 sub-reoions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



1.2.3- 1.2.3.4 



The Hornbills form an isolated group of generally large-sized 

 birds, whose huge bills form their most prominent feature. 

 They are popularly associated wdth the American Toucans, but 

 have no close relationship to them, and are now generally 



