ON PLATALEA RF.GIA. 69 



Fortunately now it is sure, that Platalea regia has occurred 

 on Celebes. 



From other localities in the Austro-Malay Archipelago our 

 Museum possesses Platalea regia from Boeroe: two females 

 are collected by our traveller Ü. S. Hoedt, November 4th 

 1864, on that island. These are the two specimens recorded 

 by Ogilvie-Grant ') in his memoir on the Genus Platalea 

 under the name of Platalea intermedia, as having been 

 killed on Borneo. This however is a mistake; in stead 

 of «Borneo" one must read » Boeroe" (Buru). Hoedt was 

 never collecting on Borneo and in November 1864 he was 

 collecting on Boeroe. Moreover I find mentioned in his 

 manuscript-list of the birdsskins sent by him to our Museum 

 in 1865, under N^s 921 and 922, two spoonbills, both females, 

 killed on Boeroe, 4 November 1864, with the following 

 remarks: »Eyes darkblue with a coffee-coloured ring, bill 

 darkgrey, legs black. These birds have been shot on the 

 shore in front of the Fort Kajeli. The eldest inhabitants of 

 Boeroe declared they had never seen this bird before." 

 This statement shows, that the bird is very rare on the 

 island. 



There is also an example of this species from Timor in 

 the collection, viz. an adult one without indication of sex 

 or date, and presented in 1881 by Mr. van Lansberge. 



As to the two birds, which, according to von Rosenberg, 

 Hoedt should have collected on the Öoela Islands, no indi- 

 cation is to be found; it is however impossible, that von 

 Rosenberg has confounded the birds killed on Boeroe with 

 those from the Soela Islands, the manuscript-list of von 

 Rosenberg being dated: Gorontalo, August 15th 1864, thus 

 before the birds were killed on Boeroe. So it is probable, 

 that this bird has also occurred on the Soela Islands. 



This is all, that can be told of the occurrence of P/a^aA'a 

 7'egia in the Austro-Malay Archipelago at the hand of the 

 Museum's material. 



1) Ibis, 1889, p. 32. Sco ulsu SLaqiu, Ciil. 1!. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p. 48. 

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