C 439 ) 

 69. Lanius bentet (Horsf.). 



Lniims Bentel Horsf., Trans. Linn. Sue. XIII (1821) p. 1+4 (Java). 



One female, Kangean ¥.. fXo. 221.) Local name: '• toen." 



70. Munia molucca propinqua (Sharpe). 



[Lnxifi. mnlumi Liiin., Si/sf. Xiit. Ed. XII. 1 (ITOlJl p. 302 (ex Brisson : Isles Moluques envoj-e h 



M. le CoQite de Bentinck, Mus. Ri'aamur. I accept Amboina as the typical locality).] 

 UrotoncJut jirnjihiqwi. Sharpe, Cat. B XIII ( 1890) p. 308 (Celebes and Flores, typ. Flores). 

 Urolnncha ha/iijenngfiiHia Vorderm., Nat. T/jdachr. Neil. Iiid. LII (1893) p. 199 (Kangean). 



Mr. Prillwitz sent six Munia from Kangean. (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 71.) (Local 

 name : " piit baru.") They agree perfectly with M. molucca propinqiui from the 

 Lesser Sunda Islands, extending as far as Lombok, whence it must have reached 

 Kangean. Dr. ^'ordernlan erroneously separated tlie Kangean form. 



The isabelline tint on his specimen must be due to immaturity or dirt. Sharpe's 

 type of p)-opinqua is from Flores, not from Celebes. Specimens from Celebes are 

 rather intermediate and oscillating, the majority being similar to typical molucca, 

 others much more like prophujua. 



Mania molucca molucca inhabits the Moluccas (Amboina, Buru, Halmahera, 

 Batjan, Ternate, Ceram and Key Islands). 



Munia molucca propinqua inhabits the Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, ?Timorlaut, 

 Sumba, Sumbava, Lombok) and Kangean. 



Celebes specimens are more or less intermediate between the two forms, hut 

 mostly more like typical molucca. 



71. Munia oryzivora (L.). 



Lo.ria orif-.irnni Linn., Si/xt. Naf. Ed. X. (1758) p. 173 (hab. in Asia et kei\no\na. inter Onjzam^ 

 (Aethiopia errore) (Java, ex Linn. Aiiwen. Arad. IV p. 243, to be accepted as typical locality).* 

 Munia onjzivora Vorderm., A'<((. Tijdschr. Ned. Iiid. LII (1893) p. 198 (Kangean). 



Dr. Vorderman mentions one specimen. 



72. Artamus leucorhynchus (L.). 



Lanius hueurhitnehuii Linn., .\fantisaa p. .'J24 (1771) (ex Briason : Manille, Luzon). 



Adult and young, Kangean W., N.W. (No.s, 48, 49, 238.) Local name r 

 " in. bua." 



73. Gracula javanus (Cuv.). 



Euldhexjaranim Cuvier, liii/ne Anini. Ed. 1829, I p. 377 (Java). 



(J ? Kangean E., W. " Iris dunkelhraun, Fiisse gelb. Schnabel roth, Siiitze 

 gelb." (Nos. 25, 170.) Native name: " beo." 



The " Tjang" or " Beo " of the Malays is generally called Gracula (or Eulahes) 



javanensis Osbeck. This name, however, cannot be used, because Osbeck's work is 



dated 1757, and he did not have binomial nomenclature throughout his work. How 



the name given in 1757 could be used even bv those authors who do not use the 



names of Linnaeus' tenth edition (1758) is difficult to understand, but everybody will 



doubtless agree that names from dates before 1758 cannot be used. It may be urged 



that Osbeck's name might be used and dated from 1771, when an English translation 



by Forster appeared ; but a glance at this is sufficient to show that no attempt to 



• Edwards, pi. 41, also quoted by Linnaeus, gives China as locality, but the bird is there apparenlly 

 introduced. 



