1872.] ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 145 



referred P. fidvigaster, Drap. (Diet. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 621, ex Java), to this species, instead of 

 to P. javensis, d, Horsf. (1822), = P. hors/ieldii, d, Wagler (1827),= P. leucogaster, Reiuw. 

 (1830). 



YuNGiPicus, Bonaparte. 



36 YuNGiPicus TEMMiNCKii (Malherbe), Eev. Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 529, " Celebes ;" Malli. 

 Monogr. i. p. 155, pi. 36. f. 3, ? . 



Hah. Celebes {Mus. Lugd.); Macassar {Wallace). 



Founded on a single example of a female in the Leyden Museum. Allied to Y. kisuki, but Tr. Z. S. viii. 

 considered a good species by Temminck and Bonaparte. ^" **" 



Prince Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 129) described a specimen of a Woodpecker, Picus sanguineus, 

 Lichtenst. (Cat. Hamb. p. 17), which was wrongly labelled in the Leyden Museum as commgfrom 

 Celebes, under the title of Vemlia albertuU. 



MEROPID^. 



Meeops, Linnaeus. 



37. Merops philippinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13* (Vindob.), i. p. 183. no. 5 (1767), ex 

 Brisson. 



Apiaster pMlipjjensis major, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 560, " Philippine Islands." 



Hab. Menado {mus. nostr.) ; Indian region. 



Examples of the Bee-eater, usually referred to Brisson's Philippine species, from North-east 

 India, Candeish, Malabar, Coorg, Ceylon, Sumatra, and Java, are undistinguishable ; and my 

 Celebean specimens do not appear to differ. 



In the Hand-list, no. 1208, Mr. G. R. Gray keeps the species which inhabits India, Ceylon, 

 Java, Flores, Lombock, and Timor separate from the Philippine bird, and refers it to Merops 

 daudini, Cuvier. Cuvier bestowed this title (Regne Anim. i. p. 442) on Levaillant's Guejj'ier 

 daudiii (pi. 14). Levaillant distinctly states that he described his species from examples brought 

 from the Philippines by Sonnerat and Poivre. The title of Ilerojjs daudini therefore applies to 

 a Philippine species, and cannot be used for the Indian species even if the Indian bird really 

 does differ. 



38. Merops ornatus, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxv, " New Holland" (1801) ; AVallace, 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 147; P.Z.S. 1862, p. 338. 



Hab. Celebes {Wallace) ; Java {mus. nostr.) ; Flores, Lombock, Timor, Sula Islands, Sum- 

 bawa, Ternate, Mysol, New Guinea ( Wallace) ; Gilolo {Bernstein) ; New South Wales, South 

 Australia {Gould) ; Clarence River, Port Albany {mus. nostr.). 



Sula-Island examples perfectly agree with Australian. The Philippine Bee-eater referred to 

 this species by Von Martens (J. fiir Orn. 1866, p. 17) seems to belong to another species allied 

 to M. viridis, Linn. 



* In the twelfth edition (" Hobnix") the title of this species was omitted by; he printer's mistake. 



