The Drepanididæ are confined to the Sandwich Islands, and I follow Mr. Sclater's suggestion in bringing together the following genera to form this family:-- _Drepanis_ (3 sp.); _Hemignathus_ (3 sp.); _Loxops_ (1 sp.); _Psittirostra_ (1 sp.). If these are correctly associated, the great {278}differences in the bill indicate that they are the remains of a larger and more varied family, once inhabiting more extensive land surfaces in the Pacific. FAMILY 26.--COEREBIDÆ. (11 Genera, 55 Species.) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. __________________________________/\__________________________________ / \ NEOTROPICAL| NEARCTIC |PALÆARCTIC | ETHIOPIAN | ORIENTAL | AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS. -----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------ | | | | | -- 2. 3. 4 |-- -- 3 -- |-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- -- | | | | | (According to the arrangement of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin.) The Coerebidæ, or Sugar-birds, are delicate little birds allied to the preceding families, but with extensile honey-sucking tongues. They are almost wholly confined to the tropical parts of America, only one species of _Certhiola_ ranging so far north as Florida. The following is the distribution of the genera:-- _Diglossa_ (14 sp.), Peru and Bolivia to Guiana and Mexico; _Diglossopis_ (1 sp.), Ecuador to Venezuela; _Oreomanes_ (1 sp.), Ecuador; _Conirostrum_ (6 sp.), Bolivia to Ecuador and Columbia; _Hemidacnis_ (1 sp.), Upper Amazon and Columbia; _Dacnis_ (13 sp.), Brazil to Ecuador and Costa Rica; _Certhidea_ (2 sp.), Galapagos Islands; _Chlorophanes_ (2 sp.), Brazil to Central America and Cuba; _Coereba_ (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; _Certhiola_ (10 sp.), Amazon to Mexico, West Indies, and Florida; _Glossoptila_ (1 sp.), Jamaica. FAMILY 27.--MNIOTILTIDÆ. (18 Genera, 115 Species.) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. __________________________________/\__________________________________ / \ NEOTROPICAL| NEARCTIC |PALÆARCTIC | ETHIOPIAN | ORIENTAL | AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS|SUB-REGIONS. -----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------ | | | | | -- 2. 3. 4 |1. 2. 3. 4 |-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- -- | | | | | (Messrs. Sclater and Salvin are followed for the Neotropical, Baird and Allen for the Nearctic region.)