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peculiar species, possesses other representatives in many of the Moluccan islands and throughout 

 the Indo-Maliiyan subregion. 



lihipiiUira is still more widely and largely represented in the whole Australian region, and in 

 the Indo-Malayan subregion, having representatives in all the islands of the Malay archipelago, 

 excepting Celebes and the Sula Islands. 



Then, again, the presence of the two genera Coracias and Myialestes is equally remarkable ; 

 for they are both unknown in any part of the Indo-Malayan region, and reappear on the 

 mainland of Asia. 



After rejecting all those species whoso Celebean origin does not rest upon the most undoubted 

 authority, I find that the number of birds inhabiting Celebes amounts to, at least, one hundred 

 and ninety-three. Of this number sixty-five are peculiar to the island. Twenty more are found 

 also in the Sula Islands, or the Sanghir group, making a total of eighty-five species peculiar to 

 Celebes and the two groups just mentioned. Of the remaining one hundred and eight species, 

 fifty-five have Indian affinities (that is, are elsewhere only found in the Indian region as opposed 

 to the Australian), though many extend beyond the limits of the Indian region ; fourteen are 

 found in the Australian and not in the Indian region, and twenty-eight are common to both 

 regions ; eight more species seem to be confined to the Moluccan islands ; and three, not included 

 above, are doubtfully found beyond Celebes ; these are Elanus hypoleucus, Ejjhialtes menadensis, 

 and the Celebean form of lotreron melanoccphala. 



PSITTACI. 



PLYCTOLOPHID^. 



Cacatl'a, Vieillot. 



1. Cac.^tua suLrnuREA (Gm.), S. N. ed. xiii. i. p. 330, "Moluccas" (1788), ex Brisson, Orn. 

 iv. p. 20G, no. 9 ; O. Finsch, Papag. i. p. 296. 



Cacatua (equatorialis, Temm., Wallace, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 280. 



Half. Tomini {Forsfen); Flores, Lombock {Wallace). 



Dr. O. Finsch regards the individuals inhabiting the islands of Flores and Lombock as 

 belonging to this Celebean species. This is also Mr. Wallace's view (/. c). Both authors concur 

 in specifically separating the Timorese bird. On the other hand. Professor Schlegel continues to 

 include the Timorese form (C. aulphurea, ainid Wallace, /. f., =P. huffoni, O. Finsch, op. cit. 

 p. 300). The eminent Professor also mentions that in the Celebean Cockatoo the iris is red, while 

 in those of Flores, Timor, and Lombock it is of a darker red, often passing into brown {cunf. 

 Tr.Z.S.viii. Nederl. Tijdschr. 1860, p. 319). Dr. O. Finsch (/. c. p. 298), on the contrary, says that he has 

 ^'" seen undoubted Celebean examples with the iris almost black. Mr. G. R. Gray (Hand-list, no. 



8395) enumerates C. cerjuatorialis, Temm., as the title of a second Celebean species of Cacatua ; 

 Tcmminck's title was given in fact to C. suljfhurea (Gm.), and there is no evidence of two species 

 of Cockatoo occurring in Celebes. 



