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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY, 
[PART IV. 
Canada, Porto Rico ; Leuconerpes (1 sp.), Bolivia to North 
Brazil ; Colaptes (9 sp.), La Plata and Bolivia to Arctic America, 
Greater Antilles; Sypoxanthus (1 sp.), Venezuela and Ecuador; 
( 2187 ) Geocolaptes (1 sp.), South Africa; Miglyptes (3 sp.), 
Malaya ; Micropternus (8 sp.), India and Ceylon to South China, 
Sumatra and Borneo. 
Family 52. — YtINGIDiE. (1 Genus, 5 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Palasarctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions, 
Australian 
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The Wrynecks (Yunx), which constitute this family, are 
small tree-creeping birds characteristic of the Palaearctic region, 
but extending into North and East Africa, over the greater part 
of the peninsula of India (but not to Ceylon), and just reaching 
the lower ranges of the Himalayas. There is also one species 
isolated in South Africa. 
Family 53. — INDICATOBLDiE. (1 Genus, 12 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub- regions. 
Pal^arctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub- regions, 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Honey-guides ( Indicator ) constitute a small family of 
doubtful affinities; perhaps most nearly allied to the wood- 
peckers and barbets. They catch bees and sometimes kill small 
birds ; and some of the species are parasitical like the cuckoo. 
Their distribution is very interesting, as they are found in every 
part of the Ethiopian region, except Madagascar, and in the 
Oriental region only in Sikhim and Borneo, being absent from 
the peninsula of India which is nearest, both geographically and 
zoologically, to Africa. 
