CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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Malaya (excluding Celebes) ; (Myiagra, (16 sp.), Australia and 

 Moluccas to Caroline and Samoa Islands : Hypothymis (2 sp.), 

 Oriental region and Celebes ; Elminia (2 sp.), Tropical Africa; 

 Muscitodus (2 sp.), Fiji Islands ; Machcerirhynchus (4 sp.), Papuan 

 Islands and North Australia ; Platystira (12 sp.), Tropical and 

 South Africa ; Rhipidura (45 sp.), the Oriental and Australian 

 regions to the Samoa Islands and Tasmania ; Chelidorynx (1 sp.), 

 North India ; Myialestes* (2 sp.), India to Ceylon, China, Java, 

 and Celebes ; Tchitrea (26 sp.), the entire Ethiopian and Oriental 

 regions, and to North China and Japan ; Philentoma (4 sp.) 

 Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, and Philippine Islands ; Todopsis 

 (6 sp.), Papuan Islands ; ( 836 ) Pogonocichla (1 sp.), South Africa ; 

 (loci - ^Bradyornis (7 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; ( 146 ) 

 Chasiempis (2 sp.), Sandwich Islands. 



FAMILY 18. PACHYCEPHALID^E. $ Genera, 62 Species.) 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The Pachycephalidse, or Thick-headed Shrikes (Pachycepha- 

 linae of the Hand List omitting Colluricincla, Cracticus, and 

 Pardalotus) are almost confined to the Australian region, a single 

 species extending to Java and Aracan, and another (?) to Mada- 

 gascar. The family has generally been united with the Laniidse, 

 but most modern ornithologists consider it to be distinct. The 

 distribution of the genera is as follows : 



Orececa (1 sp.), Australia; Falcunculus (2 sp.), Australia; 

 Pachycepkala (44 sp.), Sula Islands (east of Celebes) to the Fiji 

 Islands, and Australia ; Hylocharis (4 sp.), Timor, Celebes, Indo- 

 Malaya, and Aracan; Calicalicus (1 sp.), Madagascar; Eopsaltria 

 (14 sp.), Australia, New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides ; AT- 

 tamia (4 sp.), Madagascar, may belong to this family, or to 

 Laniidse, Oriolidae, or Artamidae, according to different authors. 2 



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