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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[PART iv. 



The Vireonidse, or Greenlets, are a family of small fly-catching 

 birds wholly restricted to the American continent, where they 

 range from Paraguay to Canada. They are allied to the Mniotil- 

 tidse and perhaps also to the Australian Paehycephalidse. Only 

 two of the genera, with about a dozen species, inhabit the 

 Nearctic region.' The distribution of the genera is as follows : 



Vireosylvia (13 sp.),- Venezuela to Mexico, the Antilles, the 

 Eastern States and Canada ; Vireo (14 sp.), Central America and 

 the Antilles to Canada ; Neochloe (1 sp.), Mexico ; Hylophilus 

 (20 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; Laletes (1 sp.), Jamaica ; Vireolanius 

 (5 sp.), Amazonia to Mexico ; Gychlorhis (9 sp.), Paraguay to 

 Mexico. 



FAMILY 29. AMPELHXE. (4 Genera, 9; Species.) 



The Ampelidse, represented in Europe by the waxwing, are a 

 small family, characteristic of the Nearctic and Palsearctic re- 

 gions, but extending southward to Costa Rica and the West 

 Indian islands. The genera are distributed as follows : 



( 1539 ) Ampelis^(3 sp.), the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions, and 

 southward to Guatemala; ( 136 ) Ptilogonys (2 sp.), Central 

 America ; ( 1442 ) Dulus (2 sp.), West Indian Islands ; ( 1361 ) Phamo- 

 pepla (1 sp.), Mexico and the Gila Valley. 



FAMILY 30. HIEUNDINID^E. ( 9 Genera, 91 Species.) 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 





