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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
[{'ART IV. 
Family 38.— MOTACILLIDiE. (9 Genera, 80 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
I’alasarctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Motacillidae, or Wagtails and Pipits, are universally dis- 
tributed, but are most abundant in*the Palaearctic, Ethiopian, 
and Oriental regions, to which the true wagtails are almost con- 
fined. The following genera are usually adopted, but some of 
them are not very well defined : — 
Motacilla (15 sp.), ranges over the greater part of Europe, 
Asia, and Africa, and to Alaska in North-west America ; Budytes 
(10 sp.), Europe, Africa, Asia to Philippines, Moluccas, Timor, 
and North Australia; Calobates (3 sp.), South Palaearctic and 
Oriental regions to Java ; Nemoricola (1 sp.), Oriental region ; 
Anthus (30 sp.), all the great continents ; Neocorys (1 sp.), Cen- 
tral North America; Coryddlla (14 sp.), South Europe to India, 
China, the Malay Islands, Australia, New Zealand and the Auck- 
land Islands : Macronyx (5 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; 
Heterwra (1 sp.), Himalayas. 
Family 39.— TYRANNIDAE. (71 Genera, 329 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical Nearctic 
Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 
Palasarctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental Australian 
Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 
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The Tyrannidae, or Tyrant Shrikes, form one of the most ex- 
tensive and truly characteristic American families of birds ; as 
they extend over the whole continent from Patagonia to the 
Arctic regions, and are found also in all the chief American 
islands — the Antilles, the Galapagos, the Falkland Islands, and 
