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An example from Manilla, preserved in the Berlin Museum, is identified by Dr. v. 

 Martens (I. c.) with the well-known African Ph. lucidus, a species unknown in Asia and 

 its islands. 



PLOTID^. 



Plotus, LinuiBus. 



218. Plotus melanogaster. 



Anhinga melanog aster, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 23, pi. xii., " Java, Ceylon " (1781) ; Walden, Tr. Zool. 



Soc. viii. p. 106 ; v. Martens, J. f . O. 1866, p. 30, no. 183 ; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 18/2, 



p. 96, "Negros." 

 Plotus nova-hollandix, 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. 



Limnaetus philippensis, p. 141. From a specimen in the Norwich Museum. 



PLATE XXV. 



Fig. I. Ninox phili])pensis, p. 144. From a specimen in Lord Walden's collection. 

 Fig. 2. Pseudoptynx ])hilippensis, 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. | . • t i isr u > n n *• 



° „ ,, ^r-, f From specimens m Lord Walden s Collection. 



Fig. 2. Merops sumatraniis, p. 151.) 



PLATE XXVII. 



C'ranorrJiinus leucocephalus, p. 165. 



Fig. 1, young male ; fig. 2, female, not quite adult. Specimens in the British Museum. 



