The Geographical Distribution of Animals/Chapter 14.5
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| BIRDS. | |||||
| Order, Family, and Genus. |
No. of Species. |
Range within the Region. | Range beyond the Region. | ||
| PICARIÆ. | |||||
| Picidæ. | |||||
| 385. | Picumnus | 14 | Honduras to Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 386. | Picus | 6 | Mexico, Chili, La Plata, and S. Patagonia | All reg. but Austral. & Ethiopian | |
| (Sphyrapicus | 1 | Mexico and Guatemala) | Nearctic genus | ||
| 387. | Campephilus | 12 | Mexico to Patagonia, Cuba | Nearctic | |
| 388. | Dryocopus | 4 | Mexico to S. Brazil | Palæarctic | |
| 389. | Celeus | 15 | Mexico and S. Brazil | ||
| 390. | Nesoceleus | 1 | Cuba | ||
| 391. | Chrysoptilus | 6 | Tropical S. America | ||
| 392. | Centurus | 10 | Mexico to Venezuela, Antilles | Nearctic | |
| 393. | Chloronerpes | 35 | Tropical America, Hayti | ||
| 394. | Xiphidiopicus | 1 | Cuba | ||
| 395. | Melanerpes | 9 | Mexico to Brazil, Porto Rico | Nearctic | |
| 396. | Leuconerpes | 1 | Brazil, Bolivia | ||
| 397. | Colaptes | 7 | Open country of trop. America, Greater Antilles | Nearctic | |
| 398. | Hypoxanthus | 1 | Venezuela and Ecuador | ||
| Megalæmidæ. | |||||
| 399. | Capito | 10 | Costa Rica to Peru and Guiana | ||
| 400. | Tetragonops | 2 | Costa Rica and Ecuador | ||
| Rhamphastidæ. | |||||
| 401. | Rhamphastos | 12 | All tropical America | ||
| 402. | Pteroglossus | 16 | Mexico to Guiana and Brazil | ||
| 403. | Selenidera | 7 | Veragua to Brazil | ||
| 404. | Andigena | 6 | Columbia to W. Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil | ||
| 405. | Aulacorhamphus | 10 | Mexico to Venezuela and Bolivia | ||
| Cuculidæ. | |||||
| 406. | Crotophaga | 3 | Tropical America and Antilles | Nearctic to Pennsylvania | |
| 407. | Guira | 1 | Brazil and Paraguay | ||
| 408. | Neomorphus | 4 | Nicaragua to Brazil and Upper Amazon | ||
| 409. | Geococcyx | 1 | Guatemala | Texas to California | |
| 410. | Dromococcyx | 2 | Mexico to Brazil | ||
| 411. | Diplopterus | 1 | Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil | ||
| 412. | Saurothera | 4 | Greater Antilles | ||
| 413. | Hyetornis | 2 | Jamaica and Hayti | ||
| 414. | Piaya | 3 | Mexico to W. Ecuador & Brazil | ||
| 415. | Morococcyx | 1 | Mexico to Costa Rica | ||
| 416. | Coccygus | 10 | Tropical America and Antilles, Cocos Islands | Nearctic | |
| Bucconidæ. | |||||
| 417. | Bucco | 21 | Guatemala to Guiana, Paraguay and Bolivia | ||
| 418. | Malacoptila | 10 | Guatemala to Guiana, W. Ecuador and Bolivia | ||
| 419. | Nonnula | 5 | Columbia and Amazonia | ||
| 420. | Monasa | 7 | Costa Rica to Brazil | ||
| 421. | Chelidoptera | 2 | Columbia to Guiana and Brazil | ||
| Galbrilidæ. | |||||
| 422. | Galbula | 9 | Guatemala to Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 423. | Urogalba | 2 | Guiana to Lower Amazon | ||
| 424. | Brachygalba | 4 | Columbia to Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 425. | Jacamaralcyon | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 426. | Jacamerops | 2 | Columbia to Amazonia | ||
| 427. | Galbalcyrhynchus | 1 | Upper Amazon | ||
| Todidæ. | |||||
| 428. | Todus | 5 | Greater Antilles | ||
| Momotidæ. | |||||
| 429. | Momotus | 10 | Mexico to W. Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 430. | Urospatha | 1 | Costa Rica to Columbia | ||
| 431. | Baryphthengus | 1 | Brazil and Paraguay | ||
| 432. | Hylomanes | 2 | Mexico and Guatemala | ||
| 433. | Prionirhynchus | 2 | Guatemala to Upper Amazon | ||
| 434. | Eumomota | 1 | Honduras to Chiriqui | ||
| Trogonidæ. | |||||
| 435. | Prionoteles | 1 | Cuba | ||
| 436. | Temnotrogon | 1 | Hayti | ||
| 437. | Trogon | 22 | Mexico to W. Ecuador & Parag. | ||
| 438. | Euptilotis | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 439. | Pharomacrus | 5 | Guatemala to Upper Amazon and Bolivia | ||
| Alcedinidæ. | |||||
| 440. | Ceryle | 8 | Mexico to Brazil, Patagonia and Chili | Nearc., S. Palæarc., Orien. | |
| Steatornithidæ. | |||||
| 441. | Steatornis | 1 | Columb., Venezuela, & Trinidad | ||
| Caprimulgidæ. | |||||
| 442. | Nyctibius | 6 | Brazil to Guatemala & Jamaica | ||
| 443. | Hydropsalis | 8 | Columbia & Guiana to La Plata | ||
| 444. | Antrostomus | 10 | Mexico and Cuba to Bolivia and La Plata | All U. States to Canada | |
| 445. | Stenopsis | 4 | Martinique to Columb., W. Peru and Chili | ||
| 446. | Siphonorhis | 1 | Jamaica | ||
| 447. | Heleothreptus | 1 | Central Brazil | ||
| 448. | Nyctidromus | 1 | Central America to S. Brazil | ||
| 449. | Podager | 1 | Tropical S. America | ||
| 450. | Lurocalis | 2 | Guiana to Brazil | ||
| 451. | Chordeiles | 7 | Mexico to W. Peru and Brazil, Jamaica and Porto Rico | All U. States to Canada | |
| 452. | Nyctiprogne | 1 | Amazonia | ||
| Cypselidæ. | |||||
| 453. | Cypselus | 3 | Antilles to Guiana and Bolivia | The Eastern Hemisphere | |
| 454. | Panyptila | 3 | Guatemala and Guiana | ||
| 455. | Chætura | 9 | Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 456. | Hemiprocne | 3 | Mexico to La Plata, Jamaica and Hayti | ||
| 457. | Cypseloides | 2 | Brazil and Peru | ||
| 458. | Nephœcetes | 1 | Jamaica | ||
| Trochilidæ. | |||||
| 459. | Grypus | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 460. | Androdon | 1 | Ecuador | ||
| 461. | Eutoxeres | 2 | Costa Rica to Ecuador | ||
| 462. | Glaucis | 2 | Panama to Brazil | ||
| 463. | Phaethornis | 14 | Tropical N. and S. America | ||
| 464. | Pygmornis | 8 | Mexico to Guiana and Brazil | ||
| 465. | Threnetes | 4 | Costa Rica to Amazonia and W. Ecuador | ||
| 466. | Dolerisca | 1 | Venezuela | ||
| 467. | Eupetomena | 1 | Guiana to Brazil | ||
| 468. | Sphenoproctus | 2 | Mexico to Guatemala | ||
| 469. | Campylopterus | 9 | Mexico to Amazonia | ||
| 470. | Phæochroa | 2 | Guatemala to Columbia | ||
| 471. | Aphantochroa | 3 | Ecuador and Brazil | ||
| 472. | Urochroa | 1 | Ecuador | ||
| 473. | Sternoclyta | 1 | Venezuela | ||
| 474. | Eugenes | 2 | Mexico to Costa Rica | ||
| 475. | Cœligena | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 476. | Lamprolæma | 1 | Mexico and Guatemala | ||
| 477. | Delattria | 2 | Guatemala | ||
| 478. | Oreopyra | 4 | Costa Rica to Chiriqui | ||
| 479. | Heliopædica | 2 | Mexico and Guatemala | ||
| 480. | Topaza | 2 | Guiana | ||
| 481. | Oreotrochilus | 6 | Ecuador to Peru and Chili | ||
| 482. | Lampornis | 7 | Mexico & W. India to Amazonia | ||
| 483. | Eulampis | 2 | Lesser Antilles | ||
| 484. | Avocettula | 1 | Guiana | ||
| 485. | Lafresnaya | 2 | Venezuela and Columbia | ||
| 486. | Doryphora | 5 | Costa Rica to Ecuador | ||
| 487. | Chalybura | 5 | Costa Rica to Columbia | ||
| 488. | Heliodoxa | 5 | Costa Rica to Venezue. & Boliv. | ||
| 489. | Iolæma | 2 | Ecuador to Peru | ||
| 490. | Phæolæma | 2 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 491. | Eugenia | 1 | Ecuador | ||
| 492. | Aithurus | 1 | Jamaica | ||
| 493. | Thalurania | 10 | Costa Rica to Guiana, Ecuador and Brazil | ||
| 494. | Panoplites | 3 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 495. | Florisuga | 2 | Guatemala to Brazil | ||
| 496. | Microchera | 2 | Nicaragua to Veragua | ||
| 497. | Lophorius | 7 | Mexico to Brazil, Peru, & Bolivia | ||
| 498. | Polemistria | 2 | Columbia to S. Brazil | ||
| 499. | Discura | 2 | Brazil | ||
| 500. | Gouldia | 4 | Costa Rica to Brazil & Bolivia | ||
| 501. | Trochilus | 2 | Mexico to Veragua | To Canada and Sitka | |
| 502. | Mellisuga | 1 | Jamaica to Hayti | ||
| 503. | Calypte | 3 | Mexico and Cuba | ||
| 504. | Selasphorus | 7 | Mexico to Veragua | W. & Cen. United States | |
| 505. | Atthis | 1 | Mexico and Guatemala | California and Colorado | |
| 506. | Stellula | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 507. | Calothorax | 2 | Mexico | ||
| 508. | Acestrura | 3 | Venezuela to Ecuador & Bolivia | ||
| 509. | Chætocercus | 3 | Venezuela and Ecuador | ||
| 510. | Myrtis | 2 | Ecuador to Bolivia, W. of Andes | ||
| 511. | Thaumastura | 1 | W. Peru | ||
| 512. | Rhodopis | 2 | W. Peru and Chili | ||
| 513. | Doricha | 5 | Mexico to Veragua, Bahamas | ||
| 514. | Tilmatura | 1 | Guatemala | ||
| 515. | Calliphlox | 2 | Ecuador and Brazil | ||
| 516. | Loddigesia | 1 | Peruvian Andes | ||
| 517. | Steganura | 6 | Venezuela to Ecuador & Bolivia | ||
| 518. | Lesbia | 6 | Columbia to Peru | ||
| 519. | Cynanthus | 2 | Venezuela to Ecuador | ||
| 520. | Sparganura | 4 | Columbia to Bolivia & La Plata | ||
| 521. | Pterophanes | 1 | Columbia to Peru | ||
| 522. | Aglæactis | 4 | Columbia to Bolivia | ||
| 523. | Oxypogon | 2 | Venezuela and Columbia | ||
| 524. | Oreonympha | 1 | Peru | ||
| 525. | Rhamphomicron | 6 | Columbia to Bolivia | ||
| 526. | Urosticte | 2 | Ecuador | ||
| 527. | Metallura | 6 | Columbia to Bolivia | ||
| 528. | Adelomia | 4 | Venezuela to Peru & Bolivia | ||
| 529. | Avocettinus | 1 | Columbia | ||
| 530. | Anthocephala | 1 | Columbia | ||
| 531. | Chrysolampis | 1 | Venezuela to Brazil | ||
| 532. | Orthorhynchus | 2 | Lesser Antilles | ||
| 533. | Cephalolepis | 3 | Brazil | ||
| 534. | Clais | 1 | Venezuela and Columbia | ||
| 535. | Baucis | 1 | Mexico to Veragua | ||
| 536. | Heliactin | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 537. | Heliothrix | 3 | Guatemala to Ecuador & Brazil | ||
| 538. | Schistes | 2 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 539. | Phlogophilus | 1 | Ecuador | ||
| 540. | Augastes | 2 | Brazil | ||
| 541. | Petasophora | 5 | Mexico to Peru and Brazil | ||
| 542. | Chrysobronchus | 3 | Venezuela to Brazil | ||
| 543. | Patagona | 1 | Ecuador to Bolivia and Chili | ||
| 544. | Docimastes | 1 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 545. | Helianthea | 7 | Columbia to Bolivia | ||
| 546. | Heliotrypha | 2 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 547. | Heliangelus | 6 | Venezuela to Peru | ||
| 548. | Diphlogæna | 3 | Bolivia | ||
| 549. | Clytolæma | 2 | E. Ecuador and Brazil | ||
| 550. | Bourcieria | 5 | Venezuela to Peru | ||
| 551. | Lampropygia | 4 | Venezuela to Bolivia | ||
| 552. | Heliomastes | 5 | Mexico to Ecuador & Venezuela | ||
| 553. | Lepidolarynx | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 554. | Calliperidia | 1 | Central Brazil and Paraguay | ||
| 555. | Eustephanus | 3 | Chili, S. Patagonia, and Juan Fernandez Island | ||
| 556. | Eriocnemis | 14 | Venezuela to Ecuador | ||
| 557. | Cyanomyia | 6 | Mexico to Peru | ||
| 558. | Hemistilbon | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 559. | Leucippus | 2 | Peru and Bolivia | ||
| 560. | Thaumatias | 15 | Mexico to Guiana, Upr. Amazon, and Brazil | ||
| 561. | Amazilia | 14 | Mexico to W. Ecuador & Peru | ||
| 562. | Saucerottia | 7 | Costa Rica to Columb. & Venezue. | ||
| 563. | Eupherusa | 3 | Mexico to Veragua | ||
| 564. | Chrysuronia | 5 | Guatemala to Ecuador & La Plata | ||
| 565. | Eucephala | 7 | Venezuela to Guiana and Brazil | ||
| 566. | Panterpe | 1 | Costa Rica and Chiriqui | ||
| 567. | Juliamyia | 2 | Panama to Ecuador | ||
| 568. | Circe | 3 | Mexico | ||
| 569. | Phæoptila | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 570. | Damophila | 1 | Costa Rica to Ecuador | ||
| 571. | Hylocharis | 3 | Amazonia and Brazil | ||
| 572. | Sapphironia | 2 | Columbia and Veragua | ||
| 573. | Sporadinus | 3 | Cuba, Bahamas, Hayti, Porto Rico | ||
| 574. | Chlorostilbon | 8 | Mexico to Brazil and La Plata | ||
| 575. | Panychlora | 3 | Venezuela and Columbia | ||
| 576. | Smaragdochrysis | 1 | Brazil | ||
| PSITTACI. | |||||
| Conuridæ. | |||||
| 577. | Ara | 15 | Trop. North and South America, Cuba, Jamaica (extinct) | ||
| 578. | Rhynchopsitta | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 579. | Henicognathus | 1 | Chili | ||
| 580. | Conurus | 30 | The whole region | S. & S.E. United States | |
| 581. | Pyrrhura | 16 | Costa Rica to Paraguay & Bolivia | ||
| 582. | Bolborhynchus | 7 | Mexico to Peru, Central Brazil, and La Plata | ||
| 583. | Brotogerys | 9 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| Psittacidæ. | |||||
| 584. | Caica | 9 | Mexico to Amazonia | ||
| 585. | Chrysotis | 32 | All the tropical sub-regions | ||
| 586. | Triclaria | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 587. | Deroptyus | 1 | Guiana and Rio Negro | ||
| 588. | Pionus | 9 | Costa Rica to Bolivia and Brazil | ||
| 589. | Urochroma | 7 | Venezuela to Brazil | ||
| 590. | Psittacula | 6 | Mexico to W. Ecuador & Brazil | ||
| COLUMBÆ. | |||||
| 591. | Columba | 18 | Trop. sub-regions with Chili and La Plata | All regions but Austral. | |
| 592. | Zenaidura | 2 | Mexico to Veragua | Nearctic | |
| 593. | Chæmepelia | 6 | Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia | S. Nearctic | |
| 594. | Columbula | 2 | Brazil and La Plata to Chili | ||
| 595. | Scardafella | 2 | Guatemala and Brazil | ||
| 596. | Zenaida | 10 | Antilles and S. America to Chili and La Plata | ||
| 597. | Melopelia | 2 | Mexico to Chili | South & West Nearctic | |
| 598. | Peristera | 4 | Mexico to Brazil | ||
| 599. | Metriopelia | 2 | W. America from Ecuador to Chili | ||
| 600. | Gymnopelia | 1 | West Peru and Bolivia | ||
| 601. | Leptoptila | 11 | Tropical sub-regions | ||
| 602. | Geotrygon | 14 | Tropical sub-regions | ||
| 603. | Starnœnas | 1 | Cuba | ||
| GALLINÆ. | |||||
| Tetraonidæ. | |||||
| 604. | Odontophorus | 17 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 605. | Dendrortyx | 3 | Mexico to Costa Rica | ||
| 606. | Cyrtonyx | 3 | Mexico to Guatemala | S. Central United States | |
| 607. | Ortyx | 5 | Mexico to Costa Rica, Cuba | Nearctic to Canada | |
| 608. | Eupsychortyx | 5 | Mexico to Columbia and Guiana | ||
| (Callipepla | 2 | Mexico) | California | ||
| Phasianidæ. | |||||
| 609. | Meleagris | 2 | Mexico and Honduras | Nearctic | |
| Cracidæ. | |||||
| 610. | Crax | 8 | Mexico to Venezuela & S. Brazil | ||
| 611. | Nothocrax | 1 | Guiana and Upper Amazon | ||
| 612. | Pauxi | 1 | Guiana and Venezuela | ||
| 613. | Mitua | 2 | Guiana to Peru | ||
| 614. | Stegnolæma | 1 | Columbia and Ecuador | ||
| 615. | Penelope | 13 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 616. | Penelopina | 1 | Guatemala | ||
| 617. | Pipile | 3 | Venezuela to Brazil and Peru | ||
| 618. | Aburria | 1 | Columbia | ||
| 619. | Chamæpetes | 2 | Costa Rica to Peru | ||
| 620. | Ortalida | 18 | Trop. North and South America | New Mexico | |
| 621. | Oreophasis | 1 | Guatemala | ||
| Tinamidæ. | |||||
| 622. | Tinamus | 7 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 623. | Nothocercus | 3 | Costa Rica to Venezue. & Ecuador | ||
| 624. | Crypturus | 16 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 625. | Rhynchotus | 2 | Brazil to Bolivia and La Plata | ||
| 626. | Nothoprocta | 4 | Ecuador to Bolivia and Chili | ||
| 627. | Nothura | 4 | Brazil to Bolivia and La Plata | ||
| 628. | Taoniscus | 1 | Brazil and Paraguay | ||
| 629. | Calodromas | 1 | La Plata | ||
| 630. | Tinamotis | 1 | Andes of Peru and Bolivia | ||
| OPISTHOCOMI. | |||||
| Opisthocomidæ | |||||
| 631. | Opisthocomus | 1 | Guiana and Lower Amazon | ||
| ACCIPITRES. | |||||
| Vulturidæ. (Cathartinæ.) |
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| 632. | Sarcorhamphus | 2 | The Andes and S. of 41° S. Lat. | ||
| 633. | Cathartes | 1 | Mexico to 20° S. Lat. | ||
| 634. | Catharista | 1 | Mexico to 40° S. Lat. | S. United States | |
| 635. | Pseudogryphis | 3 | Mexico to Falkland Ids., Cuba, Jamaica | United States | |
| Falconidæ. | |||||
| 636. | Polyborus | 2 | The whole region | California and Florida | |
| 637. | Ibycter | 8 | Guatemala to Terra del Fuego | ||
| 638. | Circus | 3 | Nearly the whole region | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 639. | Micrastur | 7 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 640. | Geranospiza | 2 | Trop. North and South America | ||
| 641. | Antenor | 1 | Mexico to Chili and La Plata | California and Texas | |
| 642. | Astur | 2 | Trop. N. and S. America | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 643. | Accipiter | 9 | The whole region | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 644. | Heterospizias | 1 | Trop. S. America, E. of Andes | ||
| 645. | Tachytriorchis | 2 | Mexico to Paraguay | California | |
| 646. | Buteo | 9 | Mexico to Patagonia | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 647. | Buteola | 1 | Veragua to Amazonia | ||
| 648. | Asturina | 7 | Mexico to Bolivia and La Plata | S.E. United States | |
| 649. | Busarellus | 1 | Brazil and Guiana | ||
| 650. | Buteogallus | 1 | Columbia and Guiana | ||
| 651. | Urubutinga | 12 | Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 652. | Harpyhaliæetus | 1 | Veragua to Chili & N. Patagonia | ||
| 653. | Morphnus | 1 | Panama to Amazonia | ||
| 654. | Thrasaëtus | 1 | Mexico to Bolivia and Paraguay | ||
| 655. | Lophotriorchis | 1 | Bogota | Indo-Malaya | |
| 656. | Spiziastur | 1 | Guatemala to Brazil | ||
| 657. | Spizaëtus | 4 | Mexico to Paraguay | Africa, India, Malaya | |
| 658. | Herpetotheres | 1 | S. Mexico to Bolivia & Paraguay | ||
| 659. | Nauclerus | 1 | Mexico to Brazil | S. United States | |
| 660. | Rostrhamus | 3 | Antilles to Brazil and Peru | Florida | |
| 661. | Leptodon | 4 | Central America to S. Brazil and Bolivia | ||
| 662. | Elanus | 1 | Mexico to Chili | Califor., Old World trop. | |
| 663. | Gampsonyx | 1 | Trinidad to Brazil | ||
| 664. | Harpagus | 3 | Central America to Brazil & Peru | ||
| 665. | Ictinia | 2 | Mexico to Brazil | South United States | |
| 666. | Spiziapteryx | 1 | La Plata | ||
| 667. | Falco | 3 | The whole region | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 668. | Cerchneis | 3 | The whole region | Almost cosmopolite | |
| Pandionidæ. | |||||
| 669. | Pandion | 1 | The whole region | Cosmopolite | |
| Strigidæ. | |||||
| 670. | Glaucidium | 6 | The whole region | W. United Sts., Palæarc. | |
| 671. | Micrathene | 1 | Mexico | Arizona, New Mexico | |
| 672. | Pholeoptynx | 1 | The whole region | N. W. America & Texas | |
| 673. | Bubo | 1 | The whole region | All regions but Austral. | |
| 674. | Scops | 6 | Mexico to Brazil and La Plata | Almost cosmopolite | |
| 675. | Gymnoglaux | 2 | West India Islands | ||
| 676. | Lophostrix | 2 | Guatemala to Lower Amazon | ||
| 677. | Syrnium | 3 | Mexico to Patagonia | All regions but Austral. | |
| 678. | Ciccaba | 10 | Mexico to Peru and Paraguay | ||
| 679. | Nyctalatinus | 1 | Columbia | ||
| 680. | Pulsatrix | 2 | Guatemala to Brazil and Peru | ||
| 681. | Asio | 2 | The whole region | All regions but Austral. | |
| 682. | Nyctalops | 1 | Cuba and Mexico to Brazil | ||
| 683. | Pseudoscops | 1 | Jamaica | ||
| (Nyctale | 1 | Mexico) | N. Temperate genus | ||
| 684. | Strix | 2 | The whole region | Almost cosmopolite | |
| Peculiar or very characteristic Genera of Wading and Swimming Birds. | |||||
| GRALLÆ. | |||||
| Rallidæ. | |||||
| Aramides | 23 | The whole region | Nearctic | ||
| Heliornis | 1 | Tropical America | |||
| Scolopacidæ. | |||||
| Eureunetes | 3 | The whole region | Nearctic | ||
| Chionididæ. | |||||
| Chionis | 2 | Sts. of Magellan, Falkland Ids. | Kerguelen's Island | ||
| Thinocoridæ. | |||||
| Attagis | 4 | Andes to Fuegia and Falkland Islands | |||
| Thinocorus | 2 | Peru, Chili, and La Plata | |||
| Charadriidæ. | |||||
| Phegornis | 1 | Temperate S. America | |||
| Oreophilus | 1 | Temperate S. America | |||
| Pluvianellus | 1 | Temperate S. America | |||
| Aphriza | 1 | W. coast of S. America | W. coast of N. America | ||
| Cariamidæ. | |||||
| Cariama | 2 | S. Brazil and La Plata | |||
| Aramidæ. | |||||
| Aramus | 5 | Mexico and Cuba to Brazil | |||
| Psophiidæ. | |||||
| Psophia | 6 | Equatorial S. America | |||
| Eurypygidæ. | |||||
| Eurypyga | 2 | Tropical America | |||
| Ardeidæ. | |||||
| Tigrisoma | 3 | The whole region | |||
| Cancroma | 1 | Tropical S. America | |||
| Palamedeidæ. | |||||
| Palamedea | 1 | Equatorial America | |||
| Chauna | 2 | Columbia, Brazil, and La Plata | |||
| ANSERES. | |||||
| Anatidæ. | |||||
| Cairina | 1 | Tropical S. America | |||
| Merganetta | 3 | Andes | |||
| Micropterus | 1 | Temperate S. America | |||
| Spheniscidæ. | |||||
| Eudyptes | 6 | Temperate S. America | Antarctic shores | ||
| Aptenodytes | 2 | Falkland Islands | Antarctic shores | ||
| STRUTHIONES. | |||||
| Struthionidæ. | |||||
| 685. | Rhea | 3 | S. Temperate America | ||