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An example from Manilla, preserved in the Berlin Museum, is identified by Dr. y. 
Martens (/. ¢.) with the well-known African Ph. lucidus, a species unknown in Asia and 
its islands. 
PLOTIDZ. 
Piotus, Linnus. 
218. PLOTUS MELANOGASTER. 
Anhinga melanogaster, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 22, pl. xii., “Java,Ceylon” (1781) ; Walden, Tr. Zool. 
Soe. viii. p. 106; v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 30, no. 182; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, 
p. 96, “ Negros.” 
Plotus nove-hollandie, Gould, v. Pelzeln, Reise der ‘ Novara,’ Vogel, p. 156. 
Hab. Luzon, April (Meyer); Negros (L. C. Layard). 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE XXIII. 
Map of the Philippine Archipelago. 
PLATE XXIV. 
Limnaétus philippensis, p. 141. From a specimen in the Norwich Museum. 
PLATE XXV. 
Fig. 1. Minox philippensis, p. 144. From a specimen in Lord Walden’s collection. 
_Fig. 2. Pseudoptynx philippensis, p. 144. From a specimen in the British Museum. 
Fig. 3. Lempijius megalotis, p. 145. From a specimen in the British Museum. 
PLATE XXVI. 
Fig. 1. Merops bicolor, p. 150. 
i i Walden’s Collection. 
er ons somatranus, p. 151: From specimens in Lord Walden’s Collection 
PLATE XXVII. 
Cranorrhinus leucocephalus, p. 165. 
Fig. 1, young male; fig. 2, female, not quite adult. Specimens in the British Museum. 
