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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
The current state of our knowledge on the distribution and motions of various types of hydrogen-deficient stars, and of their positions in the H-R diagram, is reviewed. It is concluded that the extreme helium stars (with the exception of the H-deficient binaries) and cool hydrogen-deficient stars belong to the population of the Galactic nuclear bulge, whereas the intermediate helium stars are young stars of Population I. The helium-rich sdO stars appear to be a local sample which is predominantly Population I.