26 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 
Demiegretta. *Querquedula. Onychoprion. Phalacrocorax. 
Ardeola. Mareca. Pelecanopus. Dysporus. 
Nycticorax. Dendrocygna. Plotus. ; Podiceps. 
Butorides. Hydrochelidon. 
The following nine genera are peculiar to the island of Celebes:—WMeropogon, 
Monachalcyon, Ceycopsis, Artamides, Gazzola, Streptocitta, Enodes, Scissirostrum, Mega- 
cephalon. One genus is restricted to Celebes and the Sanghir Islands, Cittwra ; one to 
Celebes and Philippines, Prioniturus ; and one to Celebes and Ceram, Basilornis. 
Of these twelve genera, Weropogon, Streptocitta, and Basilornis belong to the non- 
Australian families; Gazzola to the almost universal Corvine ; Monachalcyon, Ceycopsis, 
and Cittwra are isolated genera of a family in which the Australian region is pre- 
eminently rich; Hnodes and Scissirostrum have affinities with genera common to the 
Indian and Australian regions; Megacephaion is strictly Australian. The affinities of 
Prioniturus seem to be with Australian genera. 
The total number of Celebean genera also found within the Indian region, but not in 
the Australian, is forty-eight’. 
The total number of Celebean genera also occurring in the Australian region, but not 
in the Indian, is twenty-three. If we compare these numbers, we find that Celebes 
contains twenty-five more Indian than Australian genera. 
If we make the same comparison by orders, the following results are obtained :— 
Indian region. Australian region. 
PSILtACIOn A met R ye nae ble eee Lelenc setae reece 
NCTE Yo Saesigte ap 1M 2 
Pica s te ee ee 3 
Passeres: “5 0. > a) 805 120 5 
Columbe . 2 seats. 
Gallinze oh a eae Seed 1 
Gratzer, > Stine? setbalesan. ce 1 
Anseres 1 0 
Totaly. 2) a 48 23 
So, while the Celebean Rapaces and Passeres contain a large majority of Indian genera, 
in the Psittaci and Columb Australian genera preponderate. Loriculus is classed as 
an Indian génus; yet until the zoogeographical positions of the Philippines and of 
Celebes are determined the zoogeographical characters of Loriculus cannot be established. 
Within the limits of the Philippine and Celebean areas, seven out of the thirteen known 
species occur. Another, L. amabilis, a representative form of the Celebean L. stigmatus, 
occurs in the Sanghir Islands, and is also Papuan, being found at Gilolo and Batchian. 
1 Tt is true that Buceros, Aleedo, Budytes, and Pratincola occur in some of the Papuan and Molucean islands ; 
but they cannot be regarded as genera belonging to the Australian region. 
