CHAP. XVI11.] 
BIRDS. 
2G7 
The Phyllomithidce, or “ G-reen Bulbuls/' are a small group of 
fruit-eating birds, strictly confined to the Oriental region, and 
ranging over the whole of it, with the one exception of the Philip- 
pine I slands. The genera are : — 
(i° 22 ) pfiyllomis (12 sp.), India to Java, Ceylon, and Hainan ; 
(nee) j om (4 sp.), the whole Oriental region ; ( 1163 ) Erpornis (2 
sp.), Himalayas, Hainan, and Formosa. , 
Family 13. — PYCNONOTIDiE. (9 Genera, 139 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
N EARCTIO 
Sub-regions. 
Paleearctic 1 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Pycnonotidse, Bulbuls, or fruit-thrushes, are highly charac- 
teristic of the Oriental region, in every part of which they abound ; 
less plentiful in the Ethiopian region, and extending to Palestine 
and Japan in the Paleearctic, and to the Moluccas in the Aus- 
tralian region, but absent from the intervening island of Celebes. 
The genera are : — 
Microscelis (G sp.), Burmah, the Indo-Malay Islands, and 
Japan ; Pycnonotus (52 sp., in many sub-genera), Palestine to 
South Africa, the whole Oriental region, China and Japan; 
Alcurus (1 sp.), Himalayas ; Hemixus (2 sp.), Nepal, Bootan, 
Hainan; Phyllastrephus (4 sp.), West and South Africa; Hypsi- 
petes (20 sp.), the whole Oriental region, Madagascar and the 
Mascarene Islands ; Tylas (1 sp.), Madagascar ; Criniyer (30 sp.), 
the whole Oriental region (excluding Philippines), West and 
South Africa, Moluccas; Ixonotus (7 sp.), West Africa; ( 1015 1017 ) 
Setornis (3 sp.), Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo; Iole (4 sp.), 
Aracan and Malaya; Andropadus (9 sp.), Tropical Africa ; ( 1167 ) 
Lioptilus (1 sp.), South Africa. 
