ALLEN’S NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. 
BRITISH BIRDS. 
PICINE BIEDS. OBDER PICIFORMES. 
thi and their kin ” might be the popular title of 
be^ 1 birds, but it includes two Families which cannot 
Puff 7^*^ Woodpeckers in the true sense of the word, viz., the 
'■“'■'ds and the Jacamars (Galbulce). The two 
Sub-orders are only found in Central and Southern 
Re _ £ind are thus characteristic of the Neotropical 
pon, (jjg Tropical Region of the New World. 
pQli Woodpeckers, on the other hand, are almost cosmo- 
Eu their distribution. They are found in every part of 
Asia, Africa, as well as North and South America, 
"^ust"r north and south, but they are absent in the 
Region. Thus they are entirely unknown in the 
Eself * Pacific Ocean, in New Zealand and Australia 
l^aiy "'o meet with any Woodpecker in the Papuan or 
of islands, until we come to Celebes. The fauna 
and *®i^nd exhibits features which are partly Australian 
keys f ? P ^'^dian, but in possessing Woodpeckers and Mon- 
®ffiniti ’ r °’’bes, Nat. Libr. Primates, ii. p. 250), its zoological 
Passes^K*^^'’"® W die Indian Region. Wallace’s line, which 
been the islands of Bali and Lombock, has also 
trial ®dow an absolute barrier between the terres- 
in the Indian and Australian Regions, and it is so 
peckers ^i°dty of cases : nevertheless, two genera of Wood- 
^'■® lyngipicus grandis and Dendrocopus analis 
'n Lombock and Flores. 
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