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ON THE BERDS OF CELEBES. 



[1872. 



p. i>4. 



The group of islands of which Peling is the largest, and which are only separated from the 

 Sula Islands by the Greyhound Straits, the Togian or Schildpad Islands in the Gulf of Tomini, 

 the islands of Pagasane and of Bccton, the island of Saleyer, with its train of smaller satellites almost 

 connecting Celebes with Flores, are nearly whoUy unknown. The Sanghir Islands in the north, 

 and the Sula Islands to the cast, although as yet only partially investigated, have been shown 

 to possess some species identical with those found in Celebes; consequently they have been 

 Tr. Z. S. viii. regarded by recent authors as forming along with Celebes a separate zoological subarea. But 1 

 propose in the following list to include only those species of birds which are known to inhabit the 

 island of Celebes itself. A more definite and more accurate idea of the peculiarities of the Celebean 

 oruis will thus be presented, than if genera which occur in the Sula Islands were placed side by 

 side with Celebean genera. If we threw together the omis of the Sula Islands with that of 

 Celebes, we should find non-Celebean genera (such as Criniger, Ceyx, Plutycercus, Padujcei)hala, 

 and Monarcha) appearing in the list, and the really anomalous character of the Celebean avifauna 

 actually existing on the main island would thereby be apparently greatly modified. 



Mr. Wallace (q^. cit. i. p. 425) has estimated the number of known Celebean species of birds 

 at one hundred and ninety-one. I have only been able to add two more to that number ; yet 

 there are doubtless many more species represented by Celebean examples in the museums of 

 Europe. On the other hand, many species have been described as possessing a Celebean origin 

 which most assuredly do not occur in the island. 



To give a clear idea of the geographical relation of the Celebean avifauna I have thrown its 

 one hundred and forty-eight genera into tables, and classed them according to the regions and 

 subregions they may be said to belong to. The geographical character of a genus has been 

 determined according to the area which possesses the preponderating number of species. Thus 

 Artamus is classed as an Australian genus, because at least thirteen species of it occur within the 

 Australian region, while one only is peculiar to the Indian ; Arachnothera as an Indian genus, 

 although one species is found in New Guinea. 



By means of these tables it will be seen that thirty-seven Indian genera occur in Celebes ; 

 of these, three are peculiarly Indo-Malayan. 



Tablk I. — Showing the Indian genera found 

 Indo-Malayan subregion are 



Poliornis. Phcenicophaes. 



Spilornis. *Centrococcyx. 



Polioaetus. Cranorrhinus. 



I^imnai'tus. Lyncorais. 



Neopus. Pelargopsis. 



Lophospiza. Callialcyon. 



Epliialtes. Geocichla. 



I>oriculus. Broderipus. 



Yungipicus. Trichostoma. 

 MuUeripicus. 



in Celebes. — N.B. Those peculiar to the 

 marked with an asterisk. 



CyoiTus. 

 Myiolestes. 

 Hypothymis. ,' 

 ^thopyga. 

 Nectarophila. 

 *Anthrcptes. 

 Arachncclithra. 

 Dicfeum. 

 Ai'achnothera. 



*Prionochilus. 



Munia. 

 ♦Padda. 



AcridotliiJres. 



Sturnia. 



Osmotrerou. 



Gall us. 



Erythra. 



Eallina. 



