102 OX THE BmDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



blue than what I have found in Javan examples. I am unable to discover sufficient evidence to 

 justify I^itham's title oi pulimcphalus (Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. 58) being applied to the Philippine 

 Forjj/ii/rio, rather than to the one of Continental India (P. neglectus, Schlegel). Latham's (irey- 

 headed Galliinde (Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 375) was described by him from a drawing by General 

 Davies, of an individual in Exeter Change. The description agrees well enough with the Indian 

 bird, and better than witli the Philippine. It is certainly not sufficiently minute to enable us 

 to refer it without doubt to the latter species, F. ijulvcrulcntus, Temm. (PI. Col. 405, erroneously 

 given from Africa) ; while the probabilities are in favour of the type having come to London 

 from India, and not from the Philippines. 



Htdralectok, Wagler. 



147. IlyDRALECTOR GALLiXACEUS (Temm.), PI. Col. 464, " Moluques " (5th of July 1828); 

 Gould, Birds Austr. vi. pi. 75. 



Parra cristata, Vieill., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Palli, p. 68. 



Ilab. Menado, Macassar (mns. nostr.) ; Ayer-pannas, adult male, 21st of August, adult 



Tr. Z.s. viii. female, 18th of August, male partly moulting, 22nd of August, young female, 21st of August ; 



^'' ' Limbotto, adult male of small dimensions, 31st of August, female moulted, 29th of August ; 



Gorontalo, adult female, SOtli of April; AN'awou, very young male, 27th of August {Von 



Bosenherg) ; Gorontalo, young female, 29th of June (Forsten) ; Port Essington, Eastern Australia 



Gould) ; Queensland (mvs. nostr.). 



Temminck (/. c.) states that this is a bird of passage at Amboyna. Mr. Gould (Handbook 

 B. Austr. ii. p. 331, where an interesting account of its habits is given) mentions that it is a native 

 of New Guinea. No authority is quoted ; and I can find no confirmation of the statement. 

 Professor Schlegel confines its range to Celebes and Australia. It breeds in Eastern Australia 

 (Gould, /. r.) ; but unfortunately the month is not stated. 



I cannot follow Professor Schlegel (/. c.) in referring this species to P. cristata, Vieill. (N. D. 

 xvi. p. 430, ex Ceylon). Vieillot's title was given to Le Grand Jacana vcrd a crete of Temminck 

 (Cat. Syst. Cabinet d'Omith. p. 265. no. 403, 1807), whose description Vieillot reproduces almost 

 word for word. Temminck's Jacana, as has already been shown by Dr. Hartlaub (Syst. Index, in 

 Jard. Contrib. Ornith. 1849), is clearly Parra indica. Lath. (lud. Orn. ii. p. 765, 1790). Wagler 

 (Isis, 1832, p. 280) gives both P. cristata and P. gallinacea as the types of his genus Ilydralector. 

 But the generic character, " Ein aufrecht stehender Fleischkamm am Kopfe," evidently indicates 

 P. gallinacea as the generic type. 



My Macassar example, an adult, only differs from a Menado individual by being much 

 smaller. Wing 4f against b%. All the other dimensions proportionally less ; it is therefore 

 probably a male. A Queensland example, a young bird, crown and nape rich rufous intermixed 

 with black, only differs in having a much stouter bill. 



Gallimla, Brisson. 



148. Galli.nlla fuo.vtata, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 35, " Bouru." 



Gallinula /ictma^o^HS, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, UalU, p. 44, "Celebes." 



