The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceWallace, Alfred Russel
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Paleontology; Zoogeography
(1146) _Liothrix_ (3 sp.), Himalayas to China; _Siva_ (3 sp.), Himalayas;
_Minla_ (4 sp.), Himalayas and East Thibet; _Proparus_ (7 sp.), Nepal to
East Thibet and Aracan; (1153) _Pteruthius_ (6 sp.), Himalayas to Java and
West China; (1155) _Cutia_ (2 sp.), Nepal; (1019) _Yuhina_ (3 sp.), High
Himalayas and Moupin; (1020) _Ixulus_ (3 sp.), Himalayas to Tenasserim;
(1021) _Myzornis_ (1 sp.), Darjeeling.
FAMILY 12.--PHYLLORNITHIDÆ. (3 Genera, 14 Species.)
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION.
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{267}The Phyllornithidæ, or "Green Bulbuls," are a small group of
fruit-eating birds, strictly confined to the Oriental region, and ranging
over the whole of it, with the one exception of the Philippine Islands. The
genera are:--
(1022) _Phyllornis_ (12 sp.), India to Java, Ceylon, and Hainan; (1166)
_Iora_ (4 sp.), the whole Oriental region; (1163) _Erpornis_ (2 sp.),
Borneo, Himalayas, Hainan, and Formosa.
FAMILY 13.--PYCNONOTIDÆ. (9 Genera, 139 Species.)
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION.
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The Pycnonotidæ, Bulbuls, or fruit-thrushes, are highly characteristic of
the Oriental region, in every part of which they abound; less plentiful in
the Ethiopian region, and extending to Palestine and Japan in the
Palæarctic, and to the Moluccas in the Australian region, but absent from
the intervening island of Celebes. The genera are:--
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