CHAP, xviii.] BIRDS. 283 



peculiar to Central America and Mexico, and 2 {Spindalis and 

 FhccnicopMlus) to the West Indian islands. The genera adopted 

 by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin with their distribution will be 

 found at Vol. II., p. 09, in our account of ISTeot^opical Zoology. 



KvMiLY 33.— FEIXGILLID.E. (74 Genera, 509 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 sub-kegions. 



Neakc-tu; 

 sub-kegions. 



PaL/EARCTIC 

 SUB-HEGIONS. 



ETHIOI'IAN 

 SUB-REUION'S. 



Oriental 

 sub-kegio.ns. 



ArSlRALIAN 

 SLB-KiililO^d. 



1.2.3.4 I 1 .2 . 3 . 4 1.2 . 3 . 4 I 1 . 2 .3.4 I 1 . 2 .3 . 4 I 



I I I I I 



The great family of the FringillidcK?, or ilnchcs, is in a very un- 

 settled state as regards their division into genera, the most di- 

 vergent views being held by ornithologists as to the constitution 

 and aflinities of many of the groups. All tlie Australian finch- 

 like birds appear to belong to the Ploceidfc, so that the finches, 

 as here constituted, are found in every region and sub-region, 

 except the Australian region from which they are entirely absent 

 — a peculiar distribution hardly to be found in any other family 

 of bu'ds. 



]\Iany European ornithologists separate the Emberizidic, or bun- 

 tings, as a distinct family, but as the American genera have not 

 been so divided I am obliged to keep them together ; 1 uit the 

 genera usually classed as " buntings " are placed last, as a sub- 

 family. In the following arrangement of the genera, I have done 

 what I could to harmonize the views of the best modern writers. 

 For convenience of reference the succession of the genera is that 

 of the Hand Lid, and the numbers of the sub-genera are given 

 whenever practicable : — 



^1703 1795^ Fringilla (6 sp.), the whole PahTarctic region, includ- 

 ing the Atlantic Islands ; (^'''^^) Acanthis (3 sp ), Europe to Siberia, 

 Persia, and North- West Himalayas ; (^™^) Procardudis (1 sp.). 

 High Himalayas and East Thibet ; (^''^" - ^^'^ Chrijsomitris (18 

 sp.), Neotropical and Kearctic regions, Europe, and Siberia; (^^^■*) 

 Mdoiionia (1 sp.), East Europe to North West Himalayas ; (}^^^ 

 and isoi)'^ Chlorosinza (9 sp.), Pahrarctic region and Africa to the 



