144 OX THE BIKDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



Nixox, Hodgson. 



33. Nixox JAPONicus (Bp.), Consp. i. p. 41 (1850), ex Scblegel, Faun. Jap. pi. 9. 

 Koctua hirsuta ja])onica, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. 1866, p. 182. 



Ilah. Celebes {Von Bosenherg); Japan, China {Schlegel). 



The occurrence of a species of Ninox in Celebes was first made known by Professor 

 Schlegel {I. c). One example, collected by Von Rosenberg, is stated by the Professor to be 

 absolutely identical with Japanese and Chinese individuals. A second Celebean exanijile, 

 obtained by the same collector. Professor Schlegel considers to be more nearly related to the 

 yiiivx of continental India. A third example, sent from the island of Sanghir, the same author 

 regards as most nearly resembUng the Bornean form Athene borneensis, Bp., but with larger 

 dimensions. The range of the subgenus JMuox is extensive. Its members are found in Ceylon, 

 which furnished the type of Strix hirsuta, Temm. ; in Southern and Central India, S. luguhris, 

 Tickell; in the Himalayas, N. nipalensis, Hodgs., whence they extend eastward and north- 

 Tr. Z. S.riii. eastward to Japan, where they become A. japonica, Bp. To the southward they are found in 

 ^' ' Bengal, Burma, and Cochin China. In the Malaccan peninsula they bear the title of 

 A. malaccensis, Eyton, in the Andamans, H. affinis, Tytler ; while of the Indo-Malayan Islands, 

 Sumatra contains the type of S. scutulata. Raffles ; Borneo, A. borneensis, Bp. ; and the 

 Philippines, K philippensis, Bp. (Compt. Rend. xli. p. 655, 1855). A skeleton in the Leyden 

 Museum is our only evidence of Java possessing a species of this group, to which A.florensis, 

 Wallace, ex Flores, appears also to belong. The Madagascar N. madagascariensis, Bp., so 

 closely resembles the Indian Ninox, that Dr. Hartlaub (Faun. Madagasc.) considers that it can 

 hardly be separated as even a local race {conf. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1869. p. 453). Enough has 

 been said to show that all the local varieties have yet to be rigidly compared with one another 

 before the exact title of the Celebean Kinox can be absolutely determined. 



Strix, Linnaeus. 



34. Strix rosenbergi, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. iii. p. 181, " Celebes" (ISCG); Wallace, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 26. 



Hah. Molido, Boni, Gorontalo {Bosenlerg) ; Menado {mus. nostr.) ; Macassar ( Wallace). 

 A very distinct and fine species. 



PICARIiE. 



PICID.E. 



MuLLERiPicus, Bonaparte. 



35. MuLLERii'icrs fulvus (Quoy et Gaimard), A'oy. Astrol. i. p. 22S, pi. 17. f. 2, <1 , 

 "Celebes" (1830); :Malh. Monogr. i. p. 53, pi. 14. f. 1, d, f. 2, S. 



Hah. Macassar, Menado {mus. nostr.). 



Tlie affinities of this interesting species are nearer to M. pulverulentus (Temm.) than to the 

 group of large black-and-w hite species represented by /'. Javensis. Malhcrbe (/. c.) erroneously 



