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being to Madagascar at the time of the approximation of that 

 sub-region to Ceylon and Malaya. A later infusion of Oriental 

 forms took place probably by way of Arabia and Persia, 

 when those countries were more fertile and perhaps more ex- 

 tensive. Australia has also received its cuckoos at a somewhat 

 late date, a few having reached the Austro-Malay Islands some- 

 what earlier. 



The classification of the family is somewhat unsettled. For 

 the American genera I follow Messrs. Sclater and Salvin ; and, 

 for those of the Old World, Mr. Sharpe's suggestive paper in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1873, p. 600. The following 

 is the distribution of the various genera : 



( 2195 ) Phcenicophdes (1 sp.), Ceylon ; ( 2196 ) Ehamphococcyx (1 

 sp.), Celebes; ( 2196 ) Rhinococcyx (1 sp.), Java; ( 2196pt aud2203 ) 

 Ehopodytes (6 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon, Hainan, and Malaya ; 

 (aw*) p ii ococcyx (i gp^ Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; ( 2197 ) 

 Dasylophus (1 sp.), Philippine Islands ; ( 2198 ) Lepidogrammus (1 

 sp.), Philippine Islands ; ( 220 ) Zanclostomus (1 sp.), Malaya ; 

 ( 2201 ) Ceuthmochares (2 sp.), Tropical and South Africa and 

 Madagascar ; ( 2202 ) Taccocua (4 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon and 

 Malacca ; ( 2204 ) Rhinortha (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo ; 

 ( 2199 ) Carpococcyx (1 sp.), Borneo and Sumatra ; ( 222 ) Neomorphus 

 (4sp.), Brazil to Mexico; ( 2205 2206 ) Coua (10 sp.), Madagascar; 

 ( 2207 ) Cochlothraustes (1 sp.), Madagascar; ( 2221 ) Centropus (35 

 jp.), Tropical and South Africa, the whole Oriental region, 

 Austro-Malaya and Australia ; ( 2213 ) Crotophaga (3 sp.), Brazil 

 to Antilles and Pennsylvania ; ( 2212 ) Guira (I sp.), Brazil and 

 Paraguay ; ( 2209 ) G-eococcyx (2 sp.), Guatemala to Texas and Cali- 

 fornia; ( 221l )Dromococcyx(2 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; ( 221 ) Diplopterus 

 (1 sp.), Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil ; ( 2208 ) Saurothera (4 sp.), 

 Greater Antilles ; ( 2219 ) Hyetornis (2 sp.), Jamaica and Hayti ; 

 ( 2215 ) Piaya (3 sp.), Mexico to West Ecuador and Brazil; ( 2218 ) 

 Morococcyx (1 sp.), Costa Eica to Mexico ; ( 2214 ) Coccyjjfus (10 sp.), 

 La Plata to Antilles, Mexico and Pennsylvania, Cocos Island ; 

 ( 2227 ) Cuculus (22 sp.), Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions, 

 to Moluccas and Australia ; ( 2229 ) Caliecthrus (1 sp.), Papuan 

 Islands; (2230-2232) Cacomantis (15 sp.), Oriental and Australian 



