chap, xvm.] BIRDS. 287 



169H695 1696) Py tc Ua (24 sp.), Tropical and South Africa; ( 16M ) 

 Hypargos (2 sp.), Mozambique and Madagascar ; ( 1697 ) Emblcrna 

 (1 sp.), North-west Australia ( 1C9 ° 1712 - 1717 ) Amadina (15 sp.), 

 Tropical and Soutli Africa, Moluccas to Australia and the Samoa 

 Islands ; ( 170 ° 1701 171 °) Spermestes (8 sp.), Tropical Africa and Mada- 

 gascar; ( 1702 ) Amaurcsthes (1 sp.), East and West Africa; ( 17( * 

 1707 - 1709 i7ii) Munia (30 sp.), Oriental region to Timor and 

 New Guinea; ( 1704 ) Donacola(3 sp.), Australia; ( 1705 1706 ) Pocphila 

 (6 sp.), Australia ; ( 1718 - 1721 ) Erythrura (7 sp.), Sumatra to 

 Java, Moluccas, Timor, New Guinea, and Fiji Islands; ( 1722 ) 

 Hypochcra (3 sp.), Tropical and South Africa. 



Family 35.— STUKNID^E. (29 Genera, 124 Species.) 

 General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Nearctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Pal^arctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. 



Orifntal 

 Suh-hi aioNs. 



Australian 

 Sdb-reqions. 



1.2.3.4 



1 .2.3.4 1 . 2.3.4 I 1-3.4 



The Sturnidte, or Starlings, are a highly characteristic Old- 

 World group, extending to every part of the great Eastern con- 

 tinent and its islands, and over the Pacific Ocean to the Samoa 

 Islands and New Zealand, yet wholly absent from the mainland 

 of Australia. The family appears to be tolerably well-defined, 

 and the following genera are generally considered to belong to it : 

 (1558 1559 1562) Eulahcs (13 sp.), the Oriental region to South-west 

 China, Hainan, and Java, — and Flores, New Guinea and the Solo- 

 mon Islands in the Australian region ; Ampcliceps (1 sp.), Tenas- 

 serim, Burniah, and Cochin China; Gymnops (1 sp.), Philippine 

 Islands; Basilomis (2 sp.), Celebes and Ceram; Pastor (1 sj>.), 

 South-east Europe to India, Ceylon, and Burniah ; Acridotheres 

 (7 sp.), the whole Oriental region and Celebes ; ( 1568 15(i9 ) Sturnia 

 (12 sp.), the whole Oriental region, North China, Japan, and 

 Siberia, Celebes ; Dilophus (1 sp.) South Africa ; Sturnus (H sp.), 

 Palaearctic region, to India and South China in winter ; Stitrno- 

 pastor (4 sp.), India to Burmah and East Java ; Creadion (2 sp.) 

 New Zealand ; Hctcrolocha (1 sp.), New Zealand ; ( 1520 ) Callceas 



