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to Bolivia and Brazil ; Nonnula (3 sp,), Amazon and Columbia ; 
Monasa (7 sp.), Costa Bica to Brazil ; Chelidoptera (2 sp.), Colum- 
bia and Guiana to Brazil. 
Family 61. — GALBULIDiE. (6 Genera, 19 SppcBs.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions, 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
P ALAS ARCTIC 
SUB-KEGIONS. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental > 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Galbulidse, or Jacamars, are small slender birds, of gener- 
ally metallic plumage ; somewhat resembling in form the Bee- 
eaters of the Old World but less active. They have the same 
general distribution as the last family, but they do not occur 
west of the Equatorial Andes. The genera are : — 
Oalbula (9 sp.), Guatemala to Brazil and Bolivia; Urogalba (2 
sp.), Guiana and the lower Amazon; Brachygalba (4 sp.), Venezuela 
to Brazil and Bolivia ; Jacamaralcyon (1 sp.), Brazil ; Jacamerops 
(2 sp.), Panama to the Amazon ; Galbaleyrhynchus (1 sp.), Upper 
Amazon. 
Family 62. — COBACIIDiE. (3 Genera, 19 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Pa hJE ARCTIC 
Sub- keg ions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. I 
( Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Boilers are a family of insectivorous birds allied to the 
Bee-eaters, and are very characteristic of the Ethiopian and 
Oriental regions; but one species (Coracias garrula) spreads over 
the Palaearctic region as far north as Sweden and the Altai 
mountains, while the genus Eurystomus reaches the Amoor 
valley, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The distribution of 
the genera is as follows : — 
Coracias (8 sp.), the whole Ethiopian region, the Oriental 
