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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
[PART XV. 
fresh-water fish, and apparently the best fitted to sustain a varied 
and numerous body of kingfishers. 
The names of the genera, with their distribution and the 
number of species in each, as given by Mr. Sharpe in his ex- 
cellent monograph of the family, is as follows : — 
Alcedo (9 sp.), Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions (but 
absent from Madagascar), and extending into the Austro-Malayan 
sub-region ; Corythornis (3 sp.), the whole Ethiopian region ; 
Alcyone (7 sp.), Australia and the Austro-Malayan sub-region, 
with one species in the Philippine Islands ; Ceryle (13 sp.), absent 
only from Australia, the northern half of the Palsearctic region, 
and Madagascar ; Pelargopsis (9 sp.), the whole Oriental region, 
and extending to Celebes and Timor in the Austro-Malayan sub- 
region ; Ceyx (11 sp.),the Oriental region and Austro-Malayan sub- 
region, but absent from Celebes, and only one species in continental 
India and Ceylon ; Ceycopsis (1 sp.), Celebes ; Myioceyx (2 sp.), 
West Africa; Ipsidina (4 sp.), Ethiopian region; Syma (2 sp.), 
Papua and North Australia ; Halcyon (36 sp.), Australian, 
Oriental, and Ethiopian regions, and the southern part of the 
Palsearctic ; JDacelo (6 sp.), Australia and New Guinea ; Todir- 
hamphus (3 sp.), Eastern Pacific Islands only ; Monachalcyon (1 
sp.), Celebes ; Caridonax (1 sp.), Lombok and Elores ; Carcineutes 
(2 sp.), Siam to Borneo and Java ; Tanysiptera (14 sp.), Moluccas 
New Guinea, aild North Australia (Plate X. Vol. I. p. 414) ; 
Cittum (2 sp.), Celebes group ; Melidora (1 sp.), New Guinea. 
Family 68.— BUCEKOTIDI.E. (12 Genera, 50 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
N EOTROPtCAL 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Pal.earctic 
1 Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian - 
Sub-regions. 
j Oriental I 
| Sub-regions. | 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
— 
1 
1 . 2 . 3 - 
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 
The Hornbills form an isolated group of generally large-sized 
birds, whose huge bills form their most prominent feature. 
They are popularly associated with the American Toucans, but 
have no close relationship to them, and are now generally 
