PRODROMUS ORNITHOLOGIAE PAPUASIAE ET MOLUCCARUM 



AUCTORE 



Thoma Salvadorio 



IV. 



BUCEROTIDAE, MEROPIDAE, ALCEDINIDAE, CORACIIDAE, 

 PODARGIDAE, CAPRIMULGIDAE, CYPSELIDAE. 



Fam. BUCEROTIDAE (*)• 



1. Rhytidoceros plicatus (Perm.) (nee Auct. recent.), Spec. Faun. 

 Ind. p. 40 (1781) (ex Dampier). 



Hab. in Ceram (Forsten,. S. Mutter, Beccari); Amboina (3. Mutter, Beccari) ; 

 ? Banda (Bontius) Spec. 5. 



var. ruficottis ( 2 ). 



Hab. in Waigiou {Quoy & Gaimard, Beccari); Guebeh (Quoy & Gaimard); 

 Batanta (Beccari); Salvatti (Bruijn); Misol (Wallace); Nova Guinea occiden- 

 tali-septentrionali (Lesson, S. Muller, Wallace, D'Albertis, Beccari, Bruijn);. 

 Nova Guinea meridionali (D'Albertis); Insulis Saloraonis (Bennet) ; Halmahera 

 (S. Muller, Bruijn); Morty (Mus. Lugd.); Batcian (Wallace, Beccari). 



Spec. 45. 



Fam. MEROPIDAE. 



1. Merops ornatus, Lath., Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 35 (1801). 



Hab. in Nova Hollandia (Latham, Gould, etc.); Insulis Freti Torresii (Mac- 

 gilliwray); Nova Britannia (Bennet fide Sclater); Insula Ducis York (Brown); 



(i) Blliotus in sua recentissima de Bucerotidis Monographia false Moluccas 

 inter loca, in quibus Hydrocorax planicornis (Merrem) habitat, inscribit. 

 (») Buceros ruflcollis , Vieill., Nouv. Diet. IV, p. 600 (1816) « Waigiou ». 

 Capite et collo maris ruflSj pallidioribus. 



