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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[rART IV. 



(5 sp.), Patagonia to Greenland ; Ur&psila (1 sp.), Mexico ; Do- 

 nacobius (2 sp.), Tropical America ; Campylorhynchus (18 sp.), 

 Brazil, and Bolivia to Mexico and the Gila valley ; Cyphorhinus 

 (5 sp.), Equatorial South America to Costa Bica ; Microcerculus 

 (5 sp.), Brazil and Peru to Mexico ; Henicorhina (2 sp.), Peru 

 and Guiana to Costa Rica ; Salpindes (1 sp.), High Plains of 

 Bocky Mountains ; Catherpes (1 sp.), Mexico and Bio Grande ; 

 Cinnicerthia (2 sp.), Ecuador and Columbia. ( 760 ) Sylvietta 

 (2 sp.), Tropical and South Africa, — is placed in this family by 

 Mr. Tristram. 



Family 7.— CHAM^ID^E. (1 Genus, 1 Species). 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Neahctic 

 Sub-regions. 



PaL/EARCTIC 

 SUB-BEGIONS. 





Ethiopian i Oriental 

 Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



The bird which forms the genus Chamcza inhabits California ; 

 and though allied to the wrens it has certain peculiarities of struc- 

 ture which, in the opinion of many ornithologists, require that 

 it should be placed in a distinct family. 



Family 8.— CERTHIID^E. (6 Genera, 18 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



The Certhiidae, or Creepers, form a small family whose species 

 are thinly scattered over North America from Mexico, the Palse- 

 arctic region, parts of the Oriental region, and Australia, where 

 they are somewhat more abundant. The distribution of the 

 genera is as follows : 



Certhia (6 sp.), Nearctic and Palaearctic regions, Nepal, and Sik- 

 him; Salporn is (1 sp.), Central India; Tichodroma (1 sp.), South 



