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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
[part IV. 
Family 17.— MUSCICAPIDZE. (44 Genera, 283 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Palas arctic 
SUB-HEGIONS. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Muscicapidee, or Flycatchers (Muscicapinse and Myiagrinee 
of the Hand List , omitting Oochoa and including Pogonocichla) 
form an extensive family of usually small-sized and often bright- 
coloured birds, very' abundant in the warmer regions of the Old 
World and Australia, but becoming scarce as we approach the 
temperate and colder regions. They are wholly absent from 
North and South America. The genera, many of which are not 
well defined, are distributed as follows : — 
Peltops (1 sp.), Papuan. Islands ; Monarcha (28 sp.), Moluccas 
to the Carolines and Marquesas Islands, Australia and Tas- 
mania; Leucophantes (1 sp.), New Guinea; Butalis (4 sp.), 
Ethiopian and Palmarctic regions, Moluccas and Formosa ; Mus- 
cicapa (12 sp.), Europe and Africa; Muscicapula (6 sp.), India to 
Western China; Alseonax (1 sp.), South Africa; ErytJirosterna 
(7 sp.), Europe to China and Java ; Newtonia (1 sp.), Madagascar ; 
Xanthopygia (2 sp.), Japan, China, Malacca; Hemipus (1 sp.), 
India and Ceylon ; Pyenophrys (1 sp,), Ja va ; Hyliota (2 sp.), 
West Africa ; Erythrocercus (2 sp.), West Africa and Zambesi ; 
Micrceea (6 sp.), Australia, Timor, and Papuan Islands ; Artomyias 
(2 sp.), West Africa ; Pseudobias (1 sp.), Madagascar ; Hemiche- 
lidon (3 sp.), the Oriental region and North China ; Smithornis 
(2 sp.), West and South Africa; Megabias (1 sp.). West Africa; 
Gassinia (2 sp.), West Africa; Bias , (1 sp.), Tropical Africa; Niltava 
(3 sp.), Himalayas to West China; Cyornis (16 sp.), the whole 
Oriental region; Cyanoptila (1 sp.), Japan, China, Hainan; 
Eumyias (7 sp.), India to South China, Ceylon, and Sumatra; 
(1213 and me) Biphia (8 sp.), North India, Formosa, Timor ; An- 
thipes (1 sp.), Nepal ; Seisura (5 sp.), Australia and Austro- 
