1872.] ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 205 



Plotus, Linnseus. 



193. Plotus melanogaster (Forster), Zool. Ind. p. 22, pi. xii., "Java, Ceylon" (1781). 



llab. Menado {mus. nostr.) ; all India, Ceylon, Burma (Jerdoii) ; Java (3Ius. Lur/d.) ; 

 Australia [SchlegeJ). 



A single example of a Plotus in adult male plumage is in my possession collected near Menado. 

 It does not appear to differ from Indian examples. P. novm-hoUandke, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, 

 p. 34, is not admitted as distinct from P. melanogastcr by Professor Schlegel. Mr. Gould relies 

 on its shorter scapularies and larger size. 



List of species stated by various authors to occur in Celebes for which there is not sufficient 

 authority : — 



Vrosjnza torquata (Cuv.), Hand-list Birds Brit. Mus. no. 327. 



Scops mantis, J. Miiller, op. cit. no. 477. 



Halcyon Hops, Temm., op. cit. no. 1107. 



Ilalci/on funehris, Forsten, op. cit. no. 1126. 



Philemon moluccensis* (Gm.), op. cit. no. 2074. 



Philemon iitoniatus, G. R. Gray, op. cit. no. 2077. 



Philemon 1 collaris, Reichenbach, op. cit. no. 2083. The genus Philemon is unknown in 

 Celebes. 



Climacteris Icucophcea (Lath.), op. cit. no. 2521. The genus Climacteris is unknown in 

 Celebes. 



Dicrurus himaensis, Temm. op. cit. no. 4212. 



Picrurus atrocwrulens, G. R. Gray, op. cit. no. 4220. 



Prymophila alecto, Temm. op. cit. no 4794. The genus Prymophila is unknown in Celebes. Tr. Z. ,?. viii. 



Lalage aurea, Temm. op. cit. no. 5114. -^^ '' 



Calornis metallica, Temm. op. cit. no. 6376. 



Mwiia pallida, Wallace, op. cit. no. 6756. 



Eos cochinsinensis (Lath.), op. cit. no. 8202. The genus Eos is unknown in Celebes. 



Psittacus cyanicollis, S. Miiller and Schl. op. cit. no. 8275. 



Ptilinopus flavicollis, G. R. Gray, op. cit. no. 9125. 



Ptilinopus xanthogaster (Wagler), op. cit. no. 9136. 



Ptilinopus hyogaster (Reinw.), op cit. no. 9144. 



Macropygia leptogrammica (Temm.), op. cit. no. 9305. 



Eeimmydtdena reinwardti (Temm.), op. cit. no. 9310. The genus Ecinwardtcena is 

 unknown in Celebes. 



Most of the erroneous habitats enumerated in the above list are transcribed from the older 

 authors. In nearly every instance they have been corrected by more recent writers, especially 

 by S. Miiller, Schlegel, Wallace, and O. Finsch. 



* This species is a Mimeki {conf. Wallace, V. Z. S. 1863, p. 26). 



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