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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
[part iv. 
(1923 - mi) Pledrophanes (6 sp.), Arctic Zone to Northern Europe 
and North China, Arctic America, and east side of Rocky Moun- 
tains; ( 1926 ) Centronyx (1 sp.), Mouth of Yellowstone River. 
Family 34. — PLOCEIDAE. (29 Genera, 252 species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-region, S i 
Ne arctic 
Sub-regions. 
PALjEARCTIC 
Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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1 1 . 2 . 3. 4 
1 . 2 . 3 - 
The Ploceidse, or Weaver-finches, are especially characteristic 
of the Ethiopian region, where most of the genera and nearly 
four-fifths of the species are found ; the remainder being pretty 
equally divided between the Oriental and Australian regions. 
Like the true finches these have never been properly studied, 
and it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain what genera are natural 
and how far those of Australia and Africa are distinct. The fol- 
lowing enumeration must therefore be taken as altogether ten- 
tative and provisional. When the genera adopted differ from 
those of the Hand List they will be referred to by numbers. 
Textor (5 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; ( 165 ° — 1654 1657 ) Hy- 
phantornis (32 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; ( 1656 1656 ) Sym- 
pleeies (8 sp), Tropical and South Africa; Malimbus (9 sp.), West 
Africa; ( 1669 1661 ) Plocms (6 sp.), West and East Africa, the Orien- 
tal region (excluding Philippines) ; ( 166 °) Ffclicurvius (1 sp.), 
Madagascar ; Foudia (12 sp.), Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, 
Tropical Africa ; ( 166s 1664 j Sporopipes (2 sp.), Tropical and South 
Africa ; ( lt365 “ 1667 ) Pyromelana (14 sp.), Tropical and South 
Africa, Abyssinia to 10,500 feet ; Philetcerus (1 sp.), South Africa ; 
Nigrita (7 sp.), West Africa to Upper Nile ; Plocepasser (4 sp.), 
East and South Africa ; ( 10 ‘ 2 ~ 1674 ) Vidua .(7 sp.), Tropical and 
South Africa (Plate V,, Yol. I., p. 264) ; ( 1675 - 1677 ) Coliuspasser 
(9 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; Chera (1 sp.), South Africa ; 
Spermospim (2 sp.), West Africa; Pyrenestes (6 sp.), Tropical and 
South Africa ; ( lfiS2 - 1(587 7689 1992 1698 1698 ) Estrilda (26 sp.), Tropical 
and South Africa, India, Burmali, and Java to Australia ; ( 16SS 1(590 
