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differences in the bill indicate that they are the remains of 
a larger and more varied family, once inhabiting more extensive 
land surfaces in the Pacific. 
Family 26. — CGEBEBIEiE. (11 Genera, 55 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sob-regions. 
N EARCTIC 
See- regions. 
PaL/K ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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(According to the arrangement of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin.) 
The Ccerebidae, or Sugar-birds, are delicate little birds allied to 
tlie preceding families, but with extensile honey-sucking tongues. 
They are almost wholly confined to the tropical parts of America, 
only one species of Certhiola ranging so far north as Florida. 
The following is the distribution of the genera : — 
Diglossa (14 sp.), Peru and Bolivia to Guiana and Mexico; 
Diglossopis (1 sp.), Ecuador to Venezuela ; Oreomanes (1 sp.), 
Ecuador ; Conirostrum (6 sp.), Bolivia to Ecuador and Columbia ; 
Hemidacnis (1 sp.), Upper Amazon and Columbia ; Dacnis (13 
sp.), Brazil to Ecuador and Costa Plica ; Certhidea (2 sp.), Gala- 
pagos Islands ; Chlorophanes (2 sp.), Brazil to Central America 
and Cuba ; Ccereba (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; Certhiola (10 sp.), 
Amazon to Mexico, West Indies, and Florida; Glossoptila (1 sp.), 
Jamaica. 
Family 27.— MNIOTII.TIDJE. (18 Genera, 115 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
N EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
L’ A I, /EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
(Messrs. Sclater and Salvin are followed for the Neotropical, 
Baird and Allen for the Nearctic region.) 
The Mniotiltidse, or Wood- warblers, are an interesting group of 
small and elegant birds, allied to the preceding family and to the 
greenlets, and perhaps also to the warblers and tits of Europe. 
