148 ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1S72. 



The true habitat of this species was made known by Professor Schlcgel some seven years ago 

 (Mus. Pays-Bas) ; and to Mr. Wallace we owe not only a confirmation of the fact, but interesting 

 notes on the habits of the bird. It is not improbable that the differences whereon Mr. Sharpe 

 founded his C. sanghireiisis will prove to be common to the Celebeun bird in certain phases 

 of plumage. 

 Tr. Z. S. Tiii. Cetcopsis, Salvadori. 



^' "*^" 48. Ceycopsis f.\ll.\x (Schlegel), Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 18G6, p. 187, " Celebes;" Sharpe, 



Monogr. pt. v. no. 37. 



Ilab. Edges of creeks in the mountainous parts of Celebes [Schlegel) ; !Menado {mus. nostr.). 



Tanysiptera riedelii, J. Verreaux, N. Arch, du Mus. ii. Bulletin, p. 23, pi. 3. f. 1 (186G), is 

 not a Celebean bird. See P. Z. S. 1872, p. 1. 



Alcedixin^. 



Pelargopsis, Gloger. 



49. Pelargopsis melanorhtncha (Temm.), PI. Col. 391, "Celebes" (10th June, 1826); 

 Sharpe, Monogr. pt. ix. no. 66. 



JIab. Celebes (Bemwardt) ; ^lenaHo (mus. nostr.) ; Siila Islands (Wallace). 



Alcedo, Linnaeus. 



50. Alcedo MOLrccENSis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 31, " Moluccas " (1846); Cat. Calc. Mus. 

 no. 215, p. 49, " Celebes, Moluccas ;" Sharpe, Monogr. pt. x. no. 74. 



Alcedo minor moluccensis, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Alcedines, p. 8 ; Schlegel, Vog. Ned. 

 Ind. Ijsvogels, p. 5, pi. 1. f. 4, 5. 



Ilab. Gorontalo {Fortiteu); Celebes, Bouru, Gilolo, Flores {Wallace); Salawati, Ceram, 

 Batchian, Mysol, Amboyna {Von Bosenberg). 



It was probably Celebean examples of this species which Temminck mistook for the common 

 European Kmgfisher (PI. Col. 272, note). 



51. Alcedo asl\tic.\, Swainson, Zool. lUustr. 1st ser. i. pi. 50, "some part of India " (1820- 

 21) ; Sharpe, Monogr. pt. x. no. 75. 



Alcedo vieninting, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 172, "Java " (1822) ; Temm. Nouv. Eec. 

 pi. 239. f. 2, "Java and Sumatra;" Schlegel, Vog. Ned. Ind. Ijsvogels, p. 6, pi. 3. f. 2, 3. 



Ilab. Indo-Malayan region. Macassar (fFa/Zacf); Gorontalo {Von Rosenberg); Lombock 

 {Wallace). 



CYPSELIDyE. 



Macroptertx, Swainson. 



52. Macropteryx wallacii (Gould), P. Z. S. 1859, p. 100, " Macassar." 



Ilab. Celebes, Sula Islands {Wallace); Macassar, ^fenado {mus. nostr.). 



This species is closely allied to M. klecho, but differs in being consideral)ly larger and in 



