chap, xviii.] BIRDS. 275 



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

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

 (1 sp.), Gilolo and Batchian. 



Sub-family II. Epirnachinge. — Epimachm (1 sp.), New Guinea ; 

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

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

 North Australia. 



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

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

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

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

 (1 sp.), New Guinea. 



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



General Distribution. 



(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 are confined to Australia, 

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

 tralian region. The genera are distributed as follows : — 



Myzomcla (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 ; Mcliornis (5 sp.). 

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

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

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



