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(Pycnonotidse), while one genus, usually placed in it {Myio'phonus) 

 seems to agree better with Enicurus among the Cinclidse. The 

 genera here admitted into the thrush family are the following, the 

 numbers prefixed to some of the genera indicating their position 

 in Gray's Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds : — 



^1143^ Brachypteryx (8 sp.), Nepaul to Java and Ceylon (this 

 may belong to the Timaliid^) ; Turdus (100 sp.) has the range of 

 the whole family, abounding in the Palaearctic, Oriental and 

 Neotropical regions, while it is less plentiful in the Nearctic 

 and Ethiopian, and very scarce in the Australian; (^^^) Orcocincla 

 (11 sp.), Pa]a?arctic and Oriental regions, Australia and Tas- 

 mania ; (^*-) RJiodinocichla (1 sp.), Venezuela ; (^*^) Melanoptila 

 (1 sp.), Honduras ; (^^"^ ^^^) Catliarus (10 sp.) Mexico to Equador ; 

 ^949 gso'^ Margarop>s (4 sp.), Hayti and Porto Eico to St. Lucia • 

 ^951^ j^csGcichla (1 sp.), Tristan d'Acunha; (^^^) GeocicUa (8 sp.), 

 India to Formosa and Celebes, Timor and North Australia; 

 ^954 955^ Monticola (8 sp.). Central Europe to South Africa and to 

 China, Philippine Islands, Gilolo and Java ; (^^^) Oroccetes (3 sp.), 

 Himalayas and N. China ; Zoothera (3 sp.) Himalayas, Aracan, 

 Java, and Lombok ; Mimus (20 sp.) Canada to Patagonia, West 

 Indies and Galapagos ; i^"-) Oreoscoptes (1 sp.), Eocky Mountains 

 and Mexico; (^^^) Melanotis (2 sp.), South Mexico and Guatemala ; 

 (^*^*) Galeoscop)tes (1 sp.), Canada and Eastern United States to 

 Cuba and Panama ; (^^^ ^ Mimocichla (5 sp.), Greater Antilles; 

 ^967 968^ Harporhjnchus (7 sp.). North America, from the great 

 lakes to Mexico ; Cinclocerthia (3 sp.), Lesser Antilles ; (^'^) 

 Rhampliocinclus (1 sp.). Lesser Antilles ; Cha;tops (3 sp.), South 

 Africa; Cossypha = Bessonornis (15 sp.) Ethiopian region and 

 Palestine, 



Family 2.— SYLVIID^. (74 Genera, 640 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



