INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. 159 
The two examples on which Mr. G. R. Gray bestowed the above title are still 
extant in the British Museum, and bear on their labels Malacca as their habitat. 
They were obtained from Cuming; and Mr. G. R. Gray (List of B. J. ¢.) gave Malacca 
as the origin of the species. Mr. Wallace (J. c.), who was the first author who described 
the types, suggested the Philippines (although with doubt) as a habitat of the species 
in addition to that of Malacca. Dr. v. Martens (J. c.) without hesitation identified the 
Philippine form of Collocalia with C. troglodytes. And, finally, Mr. G. R. Gray 
(An. N. H. /. ¢.) in 1866 abandoned Malacca as its habitat and substituted the Philip- 
pines, to which archipelago he restricted it; and so it stands in the Hand-list (J. c.). 
Mr. G. R. Gray has nowhere stated his reasons for this alteration of the habitat he had 
originally assigned. But there seems to be little doubt that he arrived at a sound con- 
clusion, and that C. troglodytes represents one of the Philippine edible-nest constructing 
Swifts. The Malaccan Collocalia is identical with C. francica. Whether a species 
belonging to the C-fuciphaga group is likewise found in the Malay peninsula and 
adjacent islets is unknown, nor has a species of that group been as yet discovered by 
any naturalist in the Philippines. 
The specimen contained in the Vienna Museum, and stated by Herr y. Pelzeln (J. c.) 
to have been obtained at Manilla by Cuming, so far as description goes, agrees well with 
the British-Museum types. 
CAPRIMULGIDZ. 
Lyncornis, Gould. 
54. * LYNCORNIS MAOROTIS. 
Caprimulgus macrotis, Vigors, P. Z.S. 1831, p. 97, “neighbourhood of Manilla; Gould, Icones 
Ay. pt. 2, pl. —; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 713. 
Hab. Manilla (Lindsay). 
The range of this fine Goatsucker within the islands is quite unknown. The 
individual noted by Mr. G. R. Gray (/.c.) as being a variety from North China, is 
identical with authentic Philippine examples. It was obtained from Mr. Fortune. 
CaPRIMULGUS, Linnzus. 
55. CAPRIMULGUS MANILLENSIS. 
Caprimulgus manillensis, G. R. Gray, List Brit. Mus. Fissirostres, p. 7, no. 11, “ Manilla” (1848) 
descr. nulla ; Hand-list, no. 637. 
? Caprimulgus macrourus, Horsf., v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 19, no. 94, “ Philippines.” 
Caprimulgus, sp., Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 115, no. 2, “ Celebes.” 
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