CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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Hebrides, and Tasmania ; Artamides (1 sp.), Celebes ; Pteropo- 

 docys (1 sp.), Australia ; (^^^s 1250 1257 1258) Campephaga (16 sp.). 

 Austro-Malaya, and New Caledonia, Philippines, the Ethiopian 

 region; Volvocivora (8 sp.) the Oriental regijii (excluding 

 Philippines) ; Zalage (18 sp.), the whole Malay Archipelago to 

 New Caledonia and Australia ; Symmorphus (1 sp.), Australia ; 

 Oxynotus (2 sp.), Mauritius and Bourbon ; (^^o*) Cochoa (3 sp.), 

 Himalayas, Java. The position of this last genus is doubtful. 

 Jerdon puts it in the Liotrichidse ; Sundeval in the Sturnidee ; 

 Bonaparte in the Dicruridse ; Professor Newton suggests the 

 Pycnonotidse ; but it seems on the whole best placed here. 



Family 16.— DICEURID^. (6 Genera, 58 Species.) 



The Dicruridse, or Drongo Shrikes (Dicruridte of the Hand 

 List, omitting the genus Melcenornis), have nearly the same 

 distribution as the last family, with which they are sometimes 

 united. They are, however, most abundant and varied in the 

 Oriental region, much less so both in the Australian and Ethio- 

 pian regions. The distribution of the genera is as follows : — 



Dicrurus (46 sp., in several sub-genera), has the range of the 

 whole family, extending east to New Ireland, and one species in 

 Australia ; Chcetorhynchus (1 sp.), New Guinea ; Bhringa (2 sp.), 

 Himalayas to Borneo (Plate IX. vol. i. p. 339) ; ChiUa (2 sp.) 

 Himalayas eastward to North China ; Chaptia (3 sp.), all India to 

 Malacca and Formosa ; Irena (4 sp.). Central India, Assam, and 

 Burmah to Borneo and the Philippine Islands. This last genus 

 is placed by Jerdon among the Pycnonotidae, but seems to come 

 most naturally here or in tlie last family. 



