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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
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thotis (4 sp.), Papuan Islands and Australia ; Leptornis (2 sp.), 
Samoa Islands and New Caledonia; Philemon — Tropidorhyncus 
(18 sp.), Moluccas and Lombok to New Guinea, Australia, Tas- 
mania and New Caledonia; Entomiza (2 sp.), Australia ; Mano- 
rhina (5 sp.), Australia and Tasmania ; Euthyrh ynelvus (3 sp.), 
New Guinea; Mdirrhophetes (2 sp.), New Guinea; Melidectes 
(1 sp.), New Guinea ; Melipotes (1 sp-), New Guinea ; Melithrep- 
tus (8 sp.), New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania; ( 397 ) Moho (3 
sp.), Sandwich Islands; Chcetoptila (1 sp.), Sandwich Islands. 
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Family 23.— NECTARINIID,®. (1$ Genera, 122 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sob-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-reg;o.ns. 
Pa las arctic 
Sob— regions. 
Ethiopi vn 
Sub-regioNs. 
Oriental 
Sub- regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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1 . 2 . 3 . 4 
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The Nectariniidae, or Sun-birds, form a rather extensive group 
of insectivorous honey-suckers, often adorned with brilliant me- 
tallic plumage, and bearing a superficial resemblance to the 
American humming-birds, although not in any way related to 
them. They abound in the Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 
regions, as far east as New Ireland, and south to Queensland, 
while one species inhabits the hot Jordan Valley in the Paige- 
arctic region. For the Eastern genera I follow Lord Walden’s 
classification (Ibis, 1870) ; the African species not having been 
so carefully studied are mostly placed in one genus. The genera 
adopted are as follows : — 
Promerops (1 sp), South Africa; Nectar inia (60 sp.), the whole 
Ethiopian region ; Cinnyricinclus (5 sp.), West Africa; E-repa- 
nornis (1 sp.), Madagascar; Arachnedhra (13 sp.), Palestine, 
all India to Hainan, the Papuan Islands, and North-east Aus- 
tralia; AEthopyga (15 sp,), Himalayas and Central India to West 
China, Hainan, Java, and Northern Celebes ; Nedarophila (5 sp.), 
Central India and Ceylon, Assam and Aracan to Java, Celebes 
and the Philippines ; Chalcostetha (6 sp.), Malay Peninsula to 
New Guinea; Anthreptes (1 sp.), Siam, Malay Peninsula to 
