CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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FAMILY 64 TODIDJE. (1 Genus, 5 Species.) 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The Todies are delicate, bright-coloured, insectivorous birds, 

 of small size, and allied to the Motmots, although externally 

 more resembling flycatchers. They are wholly confined to the 

 greater Antilles, the islands of Cuba, Hayti, Jamaica, and Porto 

 Rico having each a peculiar species of Todus, while another 

 species, said to be from Jamaica, has been recently described 

 (Plate XVI. Vol. II. p. 67). 



FAMILY 65. MOMOTIR/E. (6 Genera, 17 Species.) 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The Motmots range from Mexico to Paraguay and to the west 

 coast of Ecuador, but seem to have their head-quarters in Cen- 

 tral America, five of the genera and eleven species occurring 

 from Panama northwards, two of the genera not occurring in 

 South America. The genera are as follows : 



Momotus (10 sp.), Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, one species 

 extending to Tobago, and one to Western Ecuador ; Urospatha 

 (1 sp.), Costa Eica to the Amazon ; Baryphthengus (I sp.), Brazil 

 and Paraguay ; Hylomanes (2 sp.), Guatemala ; Prionirhynchus 

 (2 sp.), Guatemala to Fpper Amazon ; Eumomota (1 sp.), Hon- 

 duras to Chiriqui. 



