CHAP, xviii.] BIRDS. 275 



Islands ; Xanthomelus (1 sp.), New Guinea ; Cicinmirus (1 sp.), 

 Papuan Islands ; Paradigalla (1 sp.), New Guinea ; Seniioptera 

 (1 sp.), Gilolo and Batchian. 



Sub-family II. Epimachinae. — Epimachus (1 sp.), New Guinea ; 

 Drepanornis (1 sp.), New Guinea ; Sdeucides (1 sp.), New Gui- 

 nea (Plate X., Vol. I., p. 414) ; Ptilorhis (4 sp.), New Guinea and 

 North Australia. 



Sub-family III. Tectonarcbinse (Bower-birds). — Sericulus (1 

 sp.), Eastern Australia ; Ptilonorhijnchus (1 sp.), Eastern Aus- 

 tralia ; Chlamydodera (4 sp.), North and East Australia ; ^lu- 

 rcedus (3 sp.), Papuan Islands and East Australia ; Amblyornis 

 (1 sp.), New Guinea. 



Family 22.— MELIPHAGID^. (23 Genera, 190 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 



8l7B-REGIONS. 



Nearctio 

 sub-begions. 



Pal^arctic 

 sub-uegions. 



Ethiopian I Oriental 

 SuB-RtGioNS. Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



1 .2.3 .4 



(As in the Hand List, but omitting Zosterops, and slightly 

 altering the arrangement.) 



The extensive group of the Meliphagidse, or Honey-suckers, 

 is wholly Australian, for the genus Zosterops, which extends 

 into the Oriental and Ethiopian regions, does not naturally 

 belong to it. Several of the genera ^re confined to Australia, 

 others to New Zealand, while a few range over the whole Aus- 

 tralian region. The genera are distributed as foUows : — 



Myzomela (18 sp.), has the widest range, extending from Ce- 

 lebes to the Samoa Islands, and to Timor and Eastern Australia ; 

 Entomophila (4 sp.), Australia and New Guinea ; Gliciphila (10 

 sp.), Australia, Timor, New Guinea, and New Caledonia ; Acan- 

 thorhynchus (2 sp.), Australia and Tasmania ; Meliphaga (1 sp.), 

 Australia ; Ptilotis (40 sp.), Gilolo and Lombok to Australia and 

 Tasmania, and to the Samoa and Tonga Islands ; Meliornis (5 sp.). 

 Australia and Tasmania; Prosthemadera (1 sp.), Pogonornis (1 

 sp.). New Zealand ; Anthornis (4 sp.). New Zealand and Chatham 

 Islands; Anthochcera (4 sp.), Australia and Tasmania; Xan- 



