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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[PART IV. 



Canada, Porto Rico ; Leuconerpes (1 sp.), Bolivia to North 

 Brazil ; Colaptes (9 sp.), La Plata and Bolivia to Arctic America, 

 Greater Antilles; Hypoxanthus (1 sp.), Venezuela and Ecuador; 

 ( 2187 ) Geocolaptes (1 sp.), South Africa; Miglyptes (3 sp.), 

 Malaya ; Micropternus (8 sp.), India and Ceylon to South China, 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



Family 52.— YUNGID.E. (1 Genus, 5 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sib-regions. 



Nearctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Pal/Earctic I Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 



Oriental I Australian 

 Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 



I 1.2.3.4 11 — 3 



1 



The Wrynecks (Yunx), which constitute this family, are 

 small tree-creeping birds characteristic of the Palsearctic region, 

 but extending into North and East Africa, over the greater part 

 of the peninsula of India (but not to Ceylon), and just reaching 

 the lower ranges of the Himalayas. There is also one species 

 isolated in South Africa. 



Family 53.— TNDTCATOPJDiE. (1 Genus, 12 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



The Honey-guides {Indicator) constitute a small family of 

 doubtful affinities ; perhaps most nearly allied to the wood- 

 peckers and barbets. They catch bees and sometimes kill small 

 birds ; and some of the species are parasitical like the cuckoo. 

 Their distribution is very interesting, as they are found in every 

 part of the Ethiopian region, except Madagascar, and in the 

 Oriental region only in Sikhim and Borneo, being absent from 

 the peninsula of India which is nearest, both geographically and 

 zoologically, to Africa. 



