138 ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. [1872 



identified A. rufitorques, Peale, with A. iogaster, and noted the two examples, which he figured (/. c.) 

 as having been obtained in the Viti Islands and at Macassar. It is quite possible that A. iogaster 

 does occur in Celebes; and it is difficult to determine the A. cruentus, Gould, ap. Schlegel, M. 

 P.-Bas, Astures, p. 42, male adulte, Celebes, Voy. de Keinwardt, " gorge d'un roussatre uniforme," 

 unless we refer it to A. iogaster. And yet, under Nisus cruentus (Valkv. Nederl. Ind. p. Gl), 

 Professor Schlegel does not allude to this specimen, nor does he give Celebes as a locality for 

 N. cruentus. 



Tachyspiza, Kaup. 



15. Tachyspiza soLOEXSis (Horsf.), Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 137, "Java" (1822); Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Astures, p. 44. 



Faico cuculoides, Temm. PI. Col. livr. xxii. pis. 110, 129, "Java" (August 2, 1823). 



Hah. New Guinea, Batchian, Sumatra, Malacca {Wallace); Java, Philippines {Schlegel); 

 Menado {mus. nostr.); North Celebes {Forsten). 



AQUILIN.E. 



Neopus, Ilodgson. 



16. Neopus mal.\yexsis (Reinw.), PL Col. 117 (2Gth June, 1824), "Java, Sumatra." 



Hah. Java, Sumatra (Tenwiincl) ; most of the hilly and jungly districts of India {Jcrdon) ; 

 Simla {mils, nostr.); Nepal {Hodgs.}; Malacca {mus. nostr.); Celebes {Bernstein); Ceylon 

 {Laj/ard). 



LiMXAETUS, Vigors. 



17. Limx.\etus lanceolatus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 29, "Celebes" (1850). 

 Spiza'etus cirratus, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Astures, p. 9, ex Celebes. 



Hab. Celebes (TFa//.); Menado {mus. nostr.) ; Tond&no {Forsten) ; Sula Islands (TF«//r/rr). 



The example in my collection has been identified by Mr. J. H. Gurney as a young individual 

 of the above species. Underneath pure white; thigh-coverts faintly fringed with pale fulvous; 

 entire head and nape pale fulvous-white ; remaining upper plumage hair-brown, darkest in shade 

 Tr. Z.S^viii. at the end of. each feather, unexposed portion of each feather being pure Avhite ; minor and 

 ^*' ' major under wing-coverts pure Avhite, a few possessing a terminal light-brown spot or drop ; 

 axillaries immaculate white ; major wing-coverts brown on outer, white, barred with brown, on 

 tlie inner web ; no trace of an occipital crest ; bill exceedingly powerful, height from festoon to 

 culmen being full five eighths of an inch. This bird closely resembles a Cingalese example of a 

 young S. cirr/iatus, Gm. {=S. cristatellvs, Temm.), in my collection — tlic only points of diflference 

 in the Cingalese individual being, besides its smaller dimensions, a black occipital crest three 

 inches and a lialf long, the major wing-coverts being mostly white, and the axillaries and thigh- 

 coverts being wliite, largely dashed, freckled, and barred with a clear tint of pale rufous. In the 

 Celebean bird the tarsal feathers incline to cover the insertion of the toes. Dimensions: — wing 

 16 inches, tail llf, tarsus 3^, mid toe with claw 2^, bill from gape 2. 



