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LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



FROM THE ISLAND OF LIRUNG OR SALIBABU, THE LARGEST 

 OF THE TALAUT GROUP. 



[By ERNST HARTERT. 



SOME time ago Mr. John Waterstradt sent us an interesting collection of birds 

 made for him liy his Bornean hnuters on Lirnng. As so little is known of the 

 Talant birds (I only know of two articles which have the Talant birds as their 

 subject, both by Dr. A. B. Meyer & L. W. Wiglesworth, in .Jo'n-n. f. Oni. 1894, 

 p. 237, and AM. Mks. Dresden, 1894-!»5, No. 9), we thought it worth while to give 

 a list of the collection. We follow the arrangement of Messrs. Meyer & Wigles- 

 wortli, who enumerate 58 species as being known from the Talant Archipelago. 

 Those not in their list are marked with an asterisk. 



1. Butastiir indicus (Gm.). 

 Exactly like Celebes skins. 



2. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gnrn.). 



Au adult specimen, distinctly belonging to tlie intermediate subspecies. 

 Although they run somewhat into each other, the three forms H. indus Indus, 

 H. i. intermedins, and //. indns (jirrenera are very well limited and easily recog- 

 nisable, ?I. indus indus having broad shaft-strii)es to the white feathers of the 

 breast and neck, //. i. intermedius narrow ones, //. indus (/in-enera none. 



*3. Pandion haliaetus L. 

 One large male, March 1897. 



4. Ninox scutulata japonica (Schl.). 

 One adnlt bird, sliot in April. 



5. Eos histrio talautensis M. & Wg. 



I find no difficulty in distinguishing every one of the series from March and 

 April from Eos histrio histrio. 



*6. Trichoglossus ornatus (L.). 



One skin, differing in no way from Celebes specimens. 



T. Tanygnathus talautensis M. & Wg. 

 A small series, excellently conhrming all the statements of the describors of 

 this species. A specimen from Bongao, one of the northernmost islands of the 

 Sulu group, is quite like specimens from the Northern Philippines, and does not have 

 longer wings at all. 



