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ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 



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Table V. — Showing the principal Indian genera which are wanting in Celebes. 

 N.B. Purely Indo-AIalayan genera are marked with a dagger. 



The islands to the eastward of Celebes (the Papuan or Austro-Malayan region of 

 Mr. Wallace) are characterized by a large number of peculiar genera. Of these, at least forty-four 

 are absent from Celebes. Besides the families of the Epimachidaj and the Paradiseida;, important 

 groups, such as Podargus, Pachycephala, and Manucodia, are all wanting. Nor does a single 

 Papuan Muscicapine form occur in Celebes. Papuan genera belonging to the two great orders 

 Psittaci and Columbfe, orders which are so largely developed in the Australian region, and in no 

 part of that region to a greater extent than in its Papuan subregion, are found in Celebes. 

 This fact is justly regarded as sufficient to stamp the ornis of that island with a Papuan character. 

 Yet among the Psittacidaj such essentially typical Australian genera (also Papuan) as Lorius 

 and Flatijcercus do not extend to Celebes. And several peculiar Papuan types are there unknown. 

 The ColumbtE of the Pajjuan subregion are well represented in Celebes ; yet, with one exception 

 {Fltlogcemts), all the Papuan genera of the Gourida; are missing *. 



By the annexed table it will also be seen that several remarkable Papuan forms belonging 

 to another characteristic Papuan family (Alcedinidac) are not found in Celebes. 



• Calcenas is a migratorj- form. 



