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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^ PJicenicophdes (1 sp.), Ceylon ; (^^^) Bhamphococcyx (1 

 sp.), Celebes; (^i^) Rhinococcyx (1 sp.), Java; (2i96pt- and 2203) 

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

 ^2203 pt. -J PQliococcyx (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; (^^^^) 

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

 sp.), Philippine Islands ; P''^) Zanclostomus (1 sp.), Malaya ; 

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

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

 Malacca ; (^^o*) Bhinortha (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo ; 

 (2199) Carpococcyx (1 sp.), Borneo and Sumatra ; {^^^'^) Neomoiphus 

 (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; (^^os 2206) ^^^^ (iq sp.), Madagascar; 

 (2207) Cochlothraustes (1 sp.), Madagascar; (^221) Centropus (35 

 ^p.), Tropical and South Africa, the whole Oriental region, 

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

 to Antilles and Pennsylvania ; (^212) Quira (1 sp.), Brazil and 

 Paraguay ; (^^o^) Geococcyx (2 sp.), Guatemala to Texas and Cali- 

 fornia; {^^^^)I)romococcyx(2 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; (^^^^) Diplopterus 

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

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

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

 Morococcyx (1 sp.), Costa Pica to Mexico ; (221*) Goccygus (10 sp.), 

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

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

 to Moluccas and Australia ; (222^) Caliecthrus (1 sp.), Papuan 

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



