42 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 
Founded on a single example of a female in the Leyden Museum. Allied to Y. kiswhi, 
but considered a good species by Temminck and Bonaparte. 
Prince Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 129) described a specimen of a Woodpecker, Picus 
sanguineus, Lichtenst. (Cat. Hamb. p. 17), which was wrongly labelled in the Leyden 
Museum as coming from Celebes, under the title of Venilia albertuli. 
MEROPID. 
Meroprs, Linneus. 
37. Mprops PHILIPPINUS, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13' (Vindob.), i. p. 183. no. 5 (1767), ex 
Brisson. 
Apiaster philippensis major, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 560, “ Philippine Islands.” 
Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.); Indian region. 
Examples of the Bee-eater, usually referred to Brisson’s Philippine species, from 
North-east India, Candeish, Malabar, Coorg, Ceylon, Sumatra, and Java, are undistin- 
guishable; and my Celebean specimens do not appear to differ. 
In the Hand-list, no. 1208, Mr. G. R. Gray keeps the species which inhabits India, 
Ceylon, Java, Flores, Lombok, and Timor separate from the Philippine bird, and refers 
it to Merops daudini, Cuvier. Cuvier bestowed this title (Régne Anim. i. p. 442) on 
Levaillant’s Guépier daudin (pl. 14). Levaillant distinctly states that he described 
his species from examples brought from the Philippines by Sonnerat and Poivre. The 
title of Merops daudini therefore applies to a Philippine species, and cannot be used for 
the Indian species even if the Indian bird really does differ. 
38. Merops ornatus, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxv, “New Holland” (1801); 
Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 147; P.Z.S. 1862, p. 338. 
Hab. Celebes (Wallace); Java (mus. nostr.); Flores, Lombock, Timor, Sula Islands, 
Sumbawa, Ternate, Mysol, New Guinea (Wallace); Gilolo (Bernstein); New South 
Wales, South Australia (Gould); Clarence River, Port Albany (mus. nostr.). 
Sula-Island examples perfectly agree with Australian. The Philippine Bee-eater 
referred to this species by Von Martens (J. fiir Orn. 1866, p. 17), seems to belong to 
another species allied to M. viridis, Linn. 
Meropogon, Bonaparte. 
39. Mrropogon Forstent (Temm.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 164, ‘ Celebes” (1850); Schlegel, 
Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 8; Meyer, J. fir O. 1871, p. 231. 
Hab. Tondano (Forsten); Rurukan (J/eyer). 
Mr. Wallace failed in obtaining this species (Ibis, 1860, p. 142). 
‘ In the twelfth edition (‘‘ Holmiz”) the title of this species was omitted by the printer’s mistake. 
