1. TRAVEL AND LITERATURE. 



The naturalists and collectors who have done work amon<? the birds of this 



g short biogi 



area first deserve attention, and to the following short biographical notes con- 

 cerning them we append a list of the publications on the Birds of Celebes and 

 the neighbouring islands, based more or less directly on these travellers' results. 

 "We are afraid that our lists are not complete, either in regard to its including 

 all the names of ornithological collectors, or all items of literature. As to the 

 latter we have restricted ourselves, with a few exceptions, to the period after 

 the publication of Walden's "List of the Birds known to inhabit the Island 

 of Celebes" in the year 1872, and several papers and books, which we have 

 not enumerated in our list, though they contain something on Celebesian Birds, 

 will be found in the synonymy of the species, if they have not been unhappily 

 entirely overlooked. 



1793. Labillardifere (Jacques Julien Houton de) 1755 — 1834. Frenchman. Naturalist. 

 Accompanied Dentrecasteaux' expedition in search of la Pei'ouse (see: Relation du voyage 

 par le C''". Labillardiere; an VIH [1800] vol.11, p. 298). The ships spent 18 days in 

 passing through the strait between Buton and Muna, and parties landed upon both islands. 

 There is no doubt that the "Pie de la Nouvelle Cak'donie"(!), Streptocitta albicolUs !Vieill.), 

 was then obtained, as possibly also Gax-.ola ti/picn Bp. Labillardiere mentions some Parrots 

 in these islands. Besides the above, he published many works and papers on botany, etc. 



1821. Reinwardt (Caspar Georg Carl) 1773 — 1854. German. Naturalist. Sojourned 

 from 1816 — 1822 in the East Indian Archipelago, visited about 1820 the Island of Saleyer, 

 spent a few months in 1821 in North Celebes (see: Rein war dt's Reis naar bet oostelijk 

 gedeelte van den indischen Archipel in bet jaar 1821 by W. H. de Vriese, Amst. 1858, 

 pp. 503 — 53S, Gorontalo; pp. 539—603, the Minahassa; with plates, 7 conceming Celebes, and 

 the published Catalogues of the Leyden Museum). His ornithological collections are in the 

 Leyden Museum, — see the list of Birds collected '125 species' in the work quoted (pp.237 — 239) 

 and the mention of 633 specimens of birds etc. sent home (p. 245). On p. 592 some birds 

 of the Minahassa are recorded. As to ornithological papers he only wrote: "Uber die Art und 

 den Ursi^rung der essbaren Vogelnester auf Java" (1838), but we do not know where this 

 has been published. IJa:a reiimanUi, occurring on islands south of Celebes and elsewhere, 

 was named after him. 



