CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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to Bolivia and Brazil; Koiinula (3 sp.), Amazon and Columbia; 

 jlfonasa (7 sp.), Costa Eica to Brazil; Chclidoptera (2 sp.), Colum- 

 bia and Guiana to Brazil. 



Family 61.— GALBULTD.E. (H Genera, 19 Sp-^cies.) 



GENKKAL Dl.STUIIiUTION'. 



Neotropic.vl Neaiutic I Pal.e^kctic I Ethiopian i Oriental ; Australia;* 

 Slb-recions. Sub-regioss. Sub-kegio.-.;!. Sub-regions. Sub-kegioxs. [ Sub-regions. 



2.3 



The GalbulidtTB, or Jacamars, are small slender birds, of gener- 

 ally metallic plumage ; somewhat resembling in form the Bee- 

 eaters of the Old AVorld but less active. They have the same 

 general distribution as the last family, but they do not occur 

 Avest of the Equatorial Andes. The genera are : — 



Gcdhula (9 sp.), Guatemala to Brazil and Bolivia; Urogalha (2 

 pp.), Guiana and the lower Amazon; Brachi/galha (4 sp.),Yenezuela 

 to Brazil and Bolivia ; Jacamaralcyon (1 pp.), Brazil ; Jacamcrops 

 (2 sp.), Panama to the Amazon; Galbalcijrhijncluis (1 sp.), Upper 

 Amazon. 



Family G2.— COEACTTD.F. (3 Genera, 19 Species.) 



General Di.stpjbution. 



Neotropical i Nearctic 

 sub-reg oss. sub-region.s. 



Pal.barctic 

 sub-hegioxs. 



Ethiopian 

 sub-regio\"s. 



Oriental .Ai.stralian 



SUB-REGION.S. bl.B-UKi.lONS. 



1.2.3.4- 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 1 .2 .3 .4- 



1 . 2 



The Rollers are a family of insectivorous birds allied to the 

 Bee-eaters, and are very charactens'ic of the Etliiopian and 

 Oriental regions; but one species {Coracias. rarrula) spreads over 

 the Palfearctic region as far north as Sweden and the Altai 

 mountains, while the genus Eurystvmns reaches the Amoor 

 valley, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The distribution of 

 the genera is as follows : — 



Coracias (8 sp.), the whole Ethio]iian region, the Oriental 



