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[part IV. 



VancUus (3 sp.), Palajarctic and Neotropical regions ; CJuehisia 

 (15 sp.), the whole Eastern Hemisphere ; Erythrogonys (1 sp.), 

 Australia ; JloploiJtcrus (10 sp.), widely scattered, but absent 

 from North America ; Squat arola (1 sp.), all the regions ; Cha- 

 radrius (14 sp.), cosmopolitan \Eudromias (5 sp.), Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere and South Temperate America ; jEgialitis (22 sp.), cos- 

 mopolitan ; Oreophilus (1 sp.). South Temperate America ; 

 Thinornis (2 sp.). New Zealand; Anarhynchus (1 sp.). New 

 Zealand (Plate XIII. Vol I. p. 455) ; Hcematopus (9 sp.), cos- 

 mopolitan ; Strepsilas (2 sp.) almost cosmopolitan ; Aphriza (1 

 sp.), West Coast of America ; Fluvianellus (1 sp.). Straits of 

 Magellan ; Dromas (1 sp.), India, Madagascar, and North-east 

 Africa; Pedionomus (1 sp.), Australia. This last genus has 

 usually been placed with the Turnicidse. 



Family 106.— OTIDIU^. (2 Genera, 26 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 bub-beqions. 



The Otididae, or Bustards, occur in all parts of the Old World 

 and Australia where there are open tracts, being only absent from 

 Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago. 



Otis (2 sp.), ranges over most of the Palfearctic region ; while 

 Eupodotis (24 sp.), has the range of the family, but is most abund- 

 ant in the Ethiopian region, which contains three-fourtlis of the 

 whole number of species. 



Family 107.— GEUID^. (3 Genera, 16 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical Nearctic Pal^sarctic Ethiopian Oriental Australian 



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