CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



277 



Sula Islands, and Flores ; Cosmefaira (1 sp.), Papuan Islands ; 

 Arachnothera (15 sp.), the Oriental region (excluding Philippines), 

 Celebes, Lombok, and Papuan Islands. 



FAMILY 24 DIC^EID^E. ($ Genera, 1&7 Species.) 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



NEOTROPICAL 

 SUB-REGIONS. 



NEARCTIC I PAL^ARCTIC I ETHIOPIAN 



SUB-REGIONS. SUB-REGIONS. SUB-REGIONS. 1 SUB-REOIONS. SUB-REGIONS. 



ORIENTAL 



AUSTRALIAN 



1 .2.3.4 



1 .2.3.4 



1.2.3.4 



The Dicseidae, or Flower-peckers, consist of very small, gaily- 

 coloured birds, rather abundant over the whole Oriental and 

 much of the Australian regions, and one genus extending over 

 the Ethiopian region. The genera here adopted are the fol- 

 lowing : 



( 622 ) Zosterops (68 sp.), the whole Ethiopian, Oriental, and 

 Australian regions, as far east as the Fiji Islands, and north to 

 Pekin and Japan ; ( 40 ~ 403 ) Dicceum (25 sp.), the whole Oriental 

 region, except China, with the Australian region as far as the 

 Solomon Islands; ( 404 ) PacTiyglossa (2 sp. uw i*), Nepal and 

 Northern Celebes ; ( 405 ) Piprisoma (2 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon 

 and Timor; ( 145 ) Pardalotus (10 sp.), Australia and Tasmania; 

 ( 407 - 409 ) PrionocJiilus (5 sp.), Indo-Malay sub-region and Papuan 

 Islands. 



FAMILY 25. DKEPANIDID^E. (4 Genera, 8 Species.) 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



NEOTROPICAL 

 SUB-REGIONS. 



NEAKCTIC 

 SUB-REGIONS. 



PAL.EARCTIC 

 SUB- REGIONS. 



ETHIOPIAN I ORIENTAL 

 SUB-REGIONS. SUB-REGIONS. 



AUSTRALIAN 

 SUB-REGIONS. 



3 



The Drepanididse are confined to the Sandwich Islands, and I 

 follow Mr. Sclater's suggestion in bringing together the following 

 genera to form this family : 



Drepanis (3 sp.) ; Hemignatkus (3 sp.) ; Loxops (1 sp.) ; Psit- 

 tirostra (1 sp.). If these are correctly associated, the great 



