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Buxton (64)^ Beccan (65)^ Bock {QQ), Forbes (67), and Klaesi 

 (67a), and we have been furnished with excellent accounts of 

 the collections made by these explorers. To the Ornithology of 

 Java, wliich requires special attention on account of the some- 

 what peculiar pliasis of its Bird-life, Heer A. G. Vorderman, of 

 Batavia, has lately devoted himself (68). He enumerates 

 404 species of Javan bii'ds, and promises a complete work on 

 the subject. 



4. Celebes. 



The Avifauna of Celebes, a debatable land between the 

 Oriental and Australian Regions, but more properly attri- 

 butable to the former, was at one time the special subject 

 of study of Arthui', Lord Tweeddale, formerly President of 

 the Zoological Society of London. Since his lamented death 

 the subject has been taken up by Dr. A. B. Meyer (69), 

 Count Salvadori (70), Briiggemann (71), and Dr. W. Blasius 

 (72), and we have become well acquainted with the birds of 

 this island. 



5. The Philippine Archipelago. 



As in Celebes so in the Philippines, Lord. Tweeddale's 

 'Memoir on the Birds of the Philippine Archipelago' (73), 

 published in 1875, has been the base of all modern re- 

 searches upon this subject. This specially attractive avi- 

 fauna has of late years received great attention. In 1874 

 Dr. J. B. Steere made a successful expedition to the Philip- 

 pines, and added more than sixty species to their avifauna, 

 besides discovering some remarkable new forms (74). Since 

 that period Major Wardlaw Ramsay (75, 76) has published 

 several contributions to the same subject, and within the last 

 few years Dr. Steere has made a second expedition to the 

 group, and formed extensive collections in most of the 

 islands. Of the results of this last expedition we have as 

 yet but an imperfect account {77), but we may trust that 

 the deficiency will be made good so soon as Dr. Steere has 

 recovered his health and strength. 



