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being to Madagascar at the time of the approximation of that 

 sub-region to Ceylon and Malaya. A later infusion of Oriental 

 forms took place probably by way of Arabia and Persia, 

 when those countries were more fertile and perhaps more ex- 

 tensive. Australia has also received its cuckoos at a somewhat 

 late date, a few having reached the Austro-Malay Islands some- 

 what earlier. 



The classification of the family is somewhat unsettled. For 

 the American genera I follow Messrs. Sclater and Salvin ; and, 

 for those of the Old World, Mr. Sharpe's suggestive paper in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1873, p. 600. The following 

 is the distribution of the various genera : — 



( 2195 ) Phcenicophdes (1 sp.), Ceylon ; ( 2196 ) Rhamphococcyx (1 

 sp.), Celebes; ( 2196 ) Rhinococcyx. (1 sp.), Java; ( 2W6pt aud2203 ) 

 Rhopodytes (6 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon, Hainan, and Malaya ; 

 ( 2203pt ) Poliococcyx (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; ( 2197 ) 

 Dasylophus (1 sp.), Philippine Islands ; ( 2198 ) Lepidogrammns (1 

 sp.), Philippine Islands ; ( 220 °) Zanclostomus (1 sp.), Malaya ; 

 ( 2201 ) Ceuthmochares (2 sp.), Tropical and South Africa and 

 Madagascar ; ( 2202 ) Taccocua (4 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon and 

 Malacca ; ( 2204 ) Rhinortha (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo ; 

 ( 2199 ) Carpococcyx (1 sp.), Borneo and Sumatra ; ( 222 °) Ncomorphus 

 (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; (* 2205 2206 ) Coua (10 sp.), Madagascar; 

 . (2207) Cochlothraustes (1 sp.), Madagascar ; ( 2221 ) Centropus (35 

 *p.), Tropical and South Africa, the whole Oriental region, 

 Austro-Malaya and Australia ; ( 2213 ) Crotophaga (3 sp.), Brazil 

 to Antilles and Pennsylvania ; ( 2212 ) Quira (1 sp.), Brazil and 

 Paraguay ; ( 2209 ) Geococcyx (2 sp.), Guatemala to Texas and Cali- 

 fornia; ( 22U )Dromococcyx(2 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; ( 221 °) Diplopterus 

 (1 sp.), Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil ; ( 220S ) Saurothera (4 sp.), 

 Greater Antilles ; ( 2219 ) Hyctornis (2 sp.), Jamaica and Hayti ; 

 ( 2215 ) Piaya (3 sp.), Mexico to West Ecuador and Brazil ; ( 2218 ) 

 Morococcyx (1 sp.), Costa Pica to Mexico ; ( 2214 ) Coccygus (10 sp.), 

 La Plata to Antilles, Mexico and Pennsylvania, Cocos Island ; 

 ( 2227 ) Cuculus (22 sp.), Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions, 

 to Moluccas and Australia ; ( 2229 ) Caliecthrus (1 sp.), Papuan 

 Islands ; (2230-2232) Cacomantis (15 sp.), Oriental and Australian 



