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being to Madagascar at the time of the approximation of that 

 sub-region to Ceylon and Malaya. A Liter 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 Salviu ; 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^ Phccnicoplmes (1 sp.), Ceylon ; (2^^'^) Rhamphococcyx (1 

 sp.), Celebes; (^^^s) lUvinococcyx (1 sp.), Java; (^wept. a.d2203) 

 Rhopoclytes (6 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon, Hainan, and jNIalaya ; 

 ^2203 pt.^ PQllococcyx (I sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; (~^^'') 

 Ddsyloplim (1 sp.), Philippine Islands ; (-^"^j Lcpidogrannnus (1 

 sp.), Philippine Islands ; (^-^^) Zanclostomiis (1 sp.), Malaya ; 

 ("-'^1) Ceuthmocharcs (2 sp.). Tropical and South Africa and 

 Madagascar ; (2-^-) Taccocua (4 sp.), Himalayas to Ceylon and 

 Malacca ; (~^^^) Ilhinortha (1 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo ; 

 (-1'"') Carpococcyx {1 sp.), Borneo and Sumatra; ("-^) Neomojphns 

 (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; p^ 220(3^ Q^y^^^^ (^iq sp.), Madagascar; 

 (2207) Cochlothraustes (1 sp.), Madagascar; (-"^) Centropus (35 

 sp.), Tropical and South Africa, the whole Oriental region, 

 Austro-Malaya and Australia ; (221^) Crotophaga (3 sp.), Brazil 

 to Antilles and Pennsylvania ; {"^~) Giiira (1 sp.), Brazil and 

 Paraguay ; (22°^) Geococcyx (2 sp.), Guatemala to Texas and Cali- 

 fornia; {^^^'^) Dromococcyx (2 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; (^-^^)Dlploptcrus 

 (1 sp.), Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil ; (220s) Saurothcm (4 sp.). 

 Greater Antilles ; (221^) Hyetornis (2 sp.), Jamaica and Hayti ; 

 (2215) piaya (3 sp.), :Mexico to West Ecuador and Brazil ; (221^) 

 Morococcyx (1 sp.), Costa Pica to Mexico; (221"^) 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 ; (^--^) Caliccthrus (1 sp.), Papuan 

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



