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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



Vanellus (3 sp.), Pala3arctic and Neotropical regions ; Chcetusia 

 (15 sp.), the whole Eastern Hemisphere ; Erythrogonys (1 sp.), 

 Australia ; Uoplopterus (10 sp.), widely scattered, but absent 

 from North America ; Squatarola (1 sp.), all the regions ; Cha- 

 radrius (14 sp.), cosmopolitan ; Eudromias (5 sp.). Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere and South Temperate America ; jEgialitis (22 sp.), cos- 

 mopolitan ; Oreophilus (1 sp.). South Temperate America ; 

 Thinornis (2 sp.). New Zealand; Anarhynchus (1 sp.). New 

 Zealand (Plate XIII. Vol I. p. 455) ; Hcematopus (9 sp.), cos- 

 mopolitan ; Strepsilas (2 sp.) almost cosmopolitan ; Aphriza (1 

 sp.), West Coast of America ; Pluvianellus (1 sp.), Straits of 

 Magellan ; Dromas (1 sp.), India, Madagascar, and North-east 

 Africa; Pedionomus (1 sp.), Australia. This last genus has 

 usually been placed with the Turnicidse. 



Family 106.— OTIDIU^. (2 Genera, 26 Species.) 



The Otididse, or Bustards, occur in all parts of the Old World 

 and Australia where there are open tracts, being only absent from 

 Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago. 



Otis (2 sp.), ranges over most of the Palsearctic region ; while 

 Eupodotis (24 sp.), has the range of the family, but is most abund- 

 ant in the Ethiopian region, which contains three-fourths of the 

 whole number of species. 



Family 107.— GRUID^. (3 Genera, 16 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Nearctic 



SUB-REOlONa. 



1.2.3 



Pal^arctic 

 sub-keoions. 



1.2.3.4 



Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. 



1.2.3 



Oriental I Australian 

 Sub-regions. Sob-eegioks. 



1.2.3 



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