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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



The Vireonidfe, or Greenlets, are a family of small fly-catching 

 birds wholly restricted to the American continent, where they 

 range from Paraguay to Canada. They are allied to the Mniotil- 

 tida? and perhaps also to the Australian PachycephalidcT. Only 

 two of the genera, with about a dozen species, inhabit the 

 Nearctic region. The distribution of the genera is as follows : — 



Vircosylvia (13 sp.), Venezuela to Mexico, the Antilles, the 

 Eastern States and Canada ; Vireo (14 sp.). Central America and 

 the Antilles to Canada ; Neocliloe (1 sp.), Mexico ; HylopMlus 

 (20 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; Laletes (1 sp.), Jamaica ; Vireolanius 

 (5 sp.), Amazonia to Mexico ] Cychlorhis (9 sp.), Paraguay to 

 Mexico. 



Family 29.— AMPELID^. (4 Genera, 9 Species.) 



The Ampelida?, represented in Europe by the waxwing, are a 

 small family, characteristic of the Nearctic and Palffiarctic re- 

 gions, but extending southward to Costa Rica and the West 

 Indian islands. The genera are distributed as follows : — 



^1539^ AmiJclis (3 sp.), the Palffiarctic and Nearctic regions, and 

 southward to Guatemala; Q'^^^) Ftilogowjs (2 sp.), Central 

 America ; (^*^-) Dulm (2 sp.), West Indian Islands ; (^^*^^) Phccno- 

 pepla (1 sp.), ]\lexico and the Gila Valley. 



Family 30.— HIEUNDINlDiE. ( 9 Genera, 91 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



