CHAP. XVIII.] 
BIRDS. 
2G9 
Hebrides, and Tasmania; Artamides (1 sp.), Celebes; Pteropo - 
docys (1 sp.), Australia ; ( 1248 1250 1257 1258 ) Campephaga (16 sp.), 
Austro-Malaya, and Hew Caledonia, Philippines, the Ethiopian 
region ; Vokocivora (8 sp.) the Oriental regi m (excluding 
Philippines); Lalage (18 sp.), the whole Malay Archipelago to 
Hew Caledonia and Australia; Symmorphus (1 sp.), Australia; 
Oxynotus (2 sp.), Mauritius and Bourbon ; ( 1204 ) Cochoa (3 sp.), 
Himalayas, Java. The position of this last genus is doubtful. 
Jerdon puts it in the Liotrichidae ; Sundeval in the Sturnidae ; 
Bonaparte in the Dieruridae ; Professor Hewton suggests the 
Pycnonotidse ; but it seems on the whole best placed here. 
Family 16. — DICRUKIDiE. (6 Genera, 58 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
N KOTROPICAL 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sob-regions. 
Pala: ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
8ub-IU-QIONS. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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1 . 2 . 3 .4 
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The Dicruridse, or Drongo Shrikes (Dicruridae of the Hand 
List, omitting the genus Meloenornis), have nearly the same 
distribution as the last family, with which they are sometimes 
united. They are, however, most abundant and varied in the 
Oriental region, much less so both in the Australian and Ethio- 
pian regions. The distribution of the genera is as follows : — 
Dicrurus (46 sp., in several sub-genera), has the range of the 
whole family, extending east to Hew Ireland, and one species in 
Australia; Chcetorhynchus (1 sp.), Hew Guinea; Bhringa (2 sp.), 
Himalayas to Borneo (Plate IX. vol. i. p. 339) ; Chibia (2 sp.) 
Himalayas eastward to Horth China ; Chaptia (3 sp.), all India to 
Malacca and Formosa ; Irena (4 sp.), Central India, Assam, and 
Burmah to Borneo and the Philippine Islands. This last genus 
is placed by Jerdon among the Pycnonotidae, but seems to come 
most naturally here or in the last family. 
