CHAP, XVII 1.] 
BIRDS. 
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The Cinclidse consist of a number of more or less thrush-like 
ground-birds, of which the most remarkable are the Dippers, 
forming the genus Gindus. These are curiously distributed, from 
the Palsearctic region as a centre, to the alpine districts of North 
and South America ; while the three genera which are here in- 
cluded as somewhat allied to Gindus, all inhabit the Oriental 
region. The genera which I class in this family are the 
following : — 
(978) (Ji nc i us (9 gp,) ; Palo 3 arctic region to West China and For- 
mosa, Kocky Mountains, and Mexico in North America, and 
southward to the Andes of Peru ; ( 916 ) Enicurus (9 sp.), Hima- 
layas to Java and West China ; ( 979 ) Eupetes (4 sp.), Indo-Malay 
sub-region and New Guinea ; ( 971 ) Myiophonus (5 sp.), Himalayas 
to Ceylon, Java, South China, and Formosa. 
( 981 ) Mesites (1 sp.), Madagascar, is an anomalous bird placed 
with Eupetes by Mr. G. E. Gray, but of very uncertain affinities. 
Family 6 . — TBOGLODYTIDiE. (17 Genera, 94 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
NEOTROPICAL I 
Sub- region's. | 
Nearctic I 
Sub-regions. | 
Palas ARCTIC j 
Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
1 Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
1. 2.3.4 
1 1 .2.3. 4 1 
1.2.34 
I 1.2.3 — 
3.4 
1 
The Troglodytidae, or Wrens, are small birds, rather abundant 
and varied in the Neotropical region, with a few species scattered 
through the Nearctic, Palsearctic, and parts of the Oriental re- 
gions, and one doubtful genus in Africa. The constitution of 
the family is by no means well determined. The South American 
genera are taken from Messrs. Sclater and Salvin’s Nomen- 
dator Avium Neotropicalium. 
Tesia (2 sp.), Eastern Himalayas ; Pnoepyga (6 sp.), Himalayas 
to East Thibet, Java; ( 7I6 * nd m ) Troglodytes (15 sp.), Neotropical, 
Nearctic, and Palrearctic regions to the Higher Himalayas ; ( 697 ) 
Eimator (1 sp.), Darjeeling ; Thryothorus (13 sp.), South Brazil 
to Mexico, Martinique, and Nearctic region ; Thryophilus (13 
sp.), Brazil to Mexico, and North-west America; Cistothorus 
