INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 159 



The two examples on which Mr. G. E. 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. I. c.) gave Malacca 

 as the origin of the species. Mr. Wallace {I. 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 [1. c.) without hesitation identified the 

 Philippine form of CoUocalia with C. troglodytes. And, finally, Mr. G. R. Gray 

 (An. N. H. I. c.) 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 (/. 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 CoUocalia 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 v. Pelzeln (/. c.) 

 to have been obtained at Manilla by Cuming, so far as description goes, agrees well with 

 the British-Museum types. 



CAPRIMULGID^. 



Ltncoknis, Gould. 



54. * LyNCOBNIS MAOEOTIS. 



Caprimulgus macrbtis. Vigors, P.Z. S. 1831, p. 97, "neighbourhood of Manilla;" Gould, Icones 

 Av. pt. 3, pi. — ; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 713. 



Hob. Manilla {Lindsay). 



The range of this fine Goatsucker within the islands is quite unknown. The 

 individual noted by Mr. G. R. Gray {I. c.) as being a variety from North China, is 

 identical with authentic Philippine examples. It was obtained from Mr. Fortune. 



Capeimulgus, Linnaeus. 

 55. Caprimulgus manillensis. 

 Caprimulgus manillensis, G. R. Gray, List Brit. Mus. Bssirostres, 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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