ON EDOLTISOMA MORIO. 77 



NOTE VIII. 

 ON EDOLIISOMA MORIO (S. MULLER) 



BY 



Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 



On page 420 of the 2'! volume of » The Birds of Celebes" 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth say: »The southern Bird is the 

 typical Edoliisoma morio, S. Muller having visited Macasser 

 and Bonthain in 1828, but not N. Celebes." As to the 

 visit, that S. Muller paid to Celebes, it is right that he 

 only visited the southern part, but he did not collect there 

 any Edoliisoma. The specimens, he described in the »Ver- 

 haudelingen etc." are collected by Dr. E. A. Forsten, who 

 was collectiug in the years 1840 and '41 on Celebes. Five 

 specimens of this species are collected by this traveller in 

 the northern part, at Tondano and Gorontalo, and these 

 were labelled by Temminck » Ceblepyris morio nov. spec." 

 These are the birds, which S. Muller described on the 

 known place. 



The typical E. morio is therefore the northern bird; 

 and as, according to Meyer and Wiglesworth, the bird 

 of southern Celebes is different from that of northern Celebes, 

 the latter having been bestowed by them with the sub- 

 specific name of septentrionalis, the southern bird must 

 receive a new name, while the subspecific name of the 

 northern bird ought to be suppressed. For the bird of the 

 southern part of Celebes I here propose the name of 



Edoliisoma morio loiglesworthi 



in honour of the too early died ornithologist. 



J>fotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXIX, 



