CHAP. XVI II.] 



BIRDS. 



287 



1G91 1695 1696) PytcUa (24 sp.), Troplcal and South Africa; (^«''^) 

 Hjipargos (2 sp.), Mozambique and IMadagascar ; Q^''^") Emhlcma 

 (1 sp.), North-west Austraha (leoo ni2 _ in?) Amadina (15 sp.), 

 Tropical and South Africa, Mohiccas to Australia and the Samoa 

 Islands ; Q-'^^ ^^^^ i'^^) Spermestes (8 sp.), Tropical Africa and IMada- 

 gascar; (^^^2) Amauresthes (1 sp.). East and West Africa; (}'^'^ 

 1707 - 1709 1711^ Munia (30 sp.), Oriental region to Timor and 

 New Guinea; Q^^^) Donacola{3 sp.), Australia; (^""^'^ i^*^") Foephila 

 (6 sp.), Australia ; (^'^^ ~ ^'-^) Erijthrnra (7 sp.), Sumatra to 

 Java, Moluccas, Timor, New Guinea, and Fiji Islands; (^"--) 

 Hyptochcra (3 sp.). Tropical and South Africa. 



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



General Di.sthibution. 



NrOTROPICAL 

 SlTB-RElilON.S. 



Nearctic 

 Slib-recions. 



Pal.earctic 



Sl'B-UEGIOSS. 



Ethiopian 



sub-regio.ns. 



Or;i; >fT\L 

 Sl'B-i;i fii >xs. 



Australian 

 sub-kegioxs. 



— 1.2.3.4^1.2.3.4.|l.2.3.4 1^3.4 



The Sturnida'', 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 : 

 Qn5& 1559 1562) Eiilobes (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 ; Ampeliceps (1 sp.), Tenas- 

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

 Islands; Basilornis (2 sp.), Celebes and Ceram ; Pastor (1 sp.), 

 South-east Europe to India, Ceylon, and Burmah ; Acridothercs 

 (7 sp.), the whole Oriental region and Celebes ; Q-'^*^'^ ^'■"^) Sturnict 

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

 Siberia, Celebes ; Dilophiis (1 sp.) South Africa ; Stnnius (G sj).), 

 Palsearctic region, to India and South China in winter; Sturno- 

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

 New Zealand ; Hefrrnlorhn (1 sp.), Ne\v Zealaufl ; (I'^-O) CaJhras 



