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The Vireonidse, or Greenlets, are a family of small fly-catching 
birds wholly restricted to the American continent, where they 
range from Paraguay to Canada. They are allied to the Mniotil- 
tidse and perhaps also to the Australian Pachycephalidse. Only 
two of the genera, with about a dozen species, inhabit the 
Nearctic region. The distribution of the genera is as follows : — 
Vireosylvia (13 sp.), Venezuela to Mexico, the Antilles, the 
Eastern States and Canada ; Vireo (14 sp.), Central America and 
the Antilles to Canada ; Neochloe (1 sp.), Mexico ; Hylophilus 
(20 sp.), Brazil to Mexico ; LaUtes (1 sp.), Jamaica ; Vireolanius 
(5 sp.), Amazonia to Mexico ; Cychlorhis (9 sp.), Paraguay to 
Mexico. 
Family 29. — AMPELIDiE. (4 Genera, 9 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub- regions. 
PAL.EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Ampelidse, represented in Europe by the waxwing, are a 
small family, characteristic of the Nearctic and Palsearctic re- 
gions, but extending southward to Costa Pica and the West 
Indian islands. The genera are distributed as follows : — 
(i 539 ) Ampelis (3 sp.), the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions, and 
southward to Guatemala; ( 136 °) Ptilogonys (2 sp.), Central 
America ; ( 1442 ) Duhis (2 sp.), West Indian Islands; ( 1361 ) Phceno- 
pepla (1 sp.), Mexico and the Gila Valley. 
Family 30. — HIEUNDINTDiE. ( 9 Genera, 91 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
PaL/EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions, 
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