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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[PART IV. 



differences in the bill indicate that they are the remains of 

 a larger and more varied family, once inhabiting more extensive 

 land surfaces in the Pacific. 



Family 26.— CCEREBID^E. (11 Genera, 55 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



(According to the arrangement of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin.) 



The Ccerebidse, or Sugar-birds, are delicate little birds allied to 

 the preceding families, but with extensile honey-sucking tongues. 

 They are almost wholly confined to the tropical parts of America, 

 only one species of Certhiola ranging so far north as Florida. 

 The following is the distribution of the genera : — 



Diglossa (14 sp.), Peru and Bolivia to Guiana and Mexico ; 

 Diglossopis (1 sp.), Ecuador to Venezuela ; Orcomanes (1 sp.), 

 Ecuador ; Conirostrum (6 sp.), Bolivia to Ecuador and Columbia ; 

 Hemidacnis (1 sp.), Upper Amazon and Columbia ; Dacnis (13 

 sp.), Brazil to Ecuador and Costa Rica ; Certhidca (2 sp.), Gala- 

 pagos Islands ; Chlorophanes (2 sp.), Brazil to Central America 

 and Cuba ; Ccereba (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; Certhiola (10 sp.), 

 Amazon to Mexico, West Indies, and Florida; Glossoptila (1 sp.), 

 Jamaica. 



Family 27.— MNTOTIT TID.E. (18 Genera, 115 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



(Messrs. Sclater and Salvin are followed for the Neotropical, 

 Baird and Allen for the Nearctic region.) 



The Mniotiltidse, or Wood-warblers, are an interesting group of 

 small and elegant birds, allied to the preceding family and \o the 

 greenlets, and perhaps also to the warblers and tits of Europe. 



