Tr.Z.S.viii. 

 p. 52. 



154 ' ON THE BIKDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



CUCULID.E. 



SCYTHROPI-V-E. 



ScYTiiROPS, Latliam. 

 59. ScYTiiROPS xov.E-HOLL.\NDiJE, Lath. Ind. Oin. i. ]). 141, "Nova Ilollandia" (1790); 

 Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 36 ; Temm. PI. Col. 290. 

 Cuculus prcesagus, Reinw. MS., ex Celebes. 



Hah. Menado, Macassar {miis. nosfr.) ; Kema (Forsfen) ; Ceram, north coast (3fus. Liu/d.) ; 

 Geram, south coast, adult males, April [Iloedt); Obi-major, adult male, 29th of June, Batchian, 

 adult male and female, end of June, a male, 8th of September {Bernstein); Flores {Wallace); 

 Xcw South "Wales, between October and January {Gould); Cape York {mus. nostr.). 



Two individuals from the vicinity of Menado are, in their colouring and markings, almost 

 identical with an example from Cape York. The dimensions of the wing and tail also agree. 

 But the bill of the Menado male, measured from the nostril, is full two inches and three quarters 

 in length, and that of the female two and five eighths, wliereas that of the Cape-York bird is 

 only two inclies and a quarter. In form tlie bill of the Celebcan bird differs from that of the 

 Cape-York example. In the latter the culmen is rounded, smooth, and broad, and there is 

 only one lateral channel or groove present. This starts from above the nostril, and runs in a line 

 more or less parallel with the culmen. In the Menado male the culmen, on leaving the forehead, 

 forms a distinct narrow ridge ; on each side of it is a depression or shallow valley, formed and 

 bounded by a second ridge, below which again is the channel observable in the Cape- York bird. 

 In the bill of the Menado female the culmen is sharper and still more clearly defined ; and the 

 lateral channels, while being deeper, are prolonged nearly to the apex of the maxilla *. The 

 type of structure is essentially that of the bill in some species of the Bucerotidce. 



We know nothing of this form out of Australia. In that country it is migratory. Its 

 geographical distribution in the archipelago, as at present known, is anomalous ; for it occurs in 

 Flores, and is not recorded from Lombock or Timor. It has been found in Batchian, but not in 

 (iilolo; in Ceram. but not in Bourou. 



riKEXUOl'II.VIA^. 



Phcexicophaes, Vieillot. 



GO. PiKEXicopiiAiis CALonnYxcncs (Tomm.), Nouv. Pec. livr. lix. pi. 349, " Celebes " (25th 

 of June, 1825); Wallace, Malay Archip. ii. p. 340. 



Le Malcoha a hec peint. Less. Complem. de Buffou, ii. p. CIS, pi. — . fig. 1. 



Hah. Gorontalo {Forsten) ; Menado, ^Macassar {imis. nostr.). 



MM. "N'errcaux proposed (Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, p. 35C) to restrict Vieillot's generic 

 title P/iwnicop/iaes to a small group consisting of this species, of P. curvirostris, Shaw, 

 P. erijthrofjnathus, Temm., and a fourth species P. ceneicaudus, Verr., not since obtained. And 

 • A Macassar example, since obtained, presents a similar structure. 



