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Table VI. — Showing the principal Austro-Malayan or Papuan genera which do not 



occur in Celebes. 

 Mimeta. 

 Rectes. 



Henicopemis. 



Podargus. 



^gotheles. 



Eurystopodus. 



Choucalcyon. 



Mellidora. 



Cyanalcyon. 



Syma. 



Alcyone. 



Myzomela. 



Entomophila. 



Glycipliila. 



Meliphaga. 



Anthochaera. 



Philemon. 



Gerygone. 



Petroica. 



Peltops. 



Machserirliynelius. 



Arses. 



Monarch a. 



Piezorhynchus . 



Microeca. 



Todopsis. 



Cracticus. 



Pachycephala. 



Myiolestes. 



Manucodia. 



Ptilonorhynchus. 



Lycocorax. 



Gymnocorvus. 



Eos. 



Lorius. 



Geoffroyius. 



Charmosyna. 



Platycercus. 



Psittacula (Cyclopsitta). 



Nasiterna. 



Microglossum. 



Dasyptilus. 



Trugon. 



Goura. 



Henicophaps. 



Casuarius. 



The zoogeographical relationship of the Philippines and Celebes, as exemplified by 

 their birds, has been adverted to by Mr. Wallace and other writers. Unfortunately 

 the Philippine archipelago, with its twelve hundred islands, has been but imperfectly 

 explored ; while the localities of many, if not of all, the known Philippine species are 

 but vaguely ascertained. Luzon, the island whose ornithology has been the most 

 investigated, is the furthest off from Celebes, and has the large island of Mindanao 

 and many of less importance intervening. The resemblance which exists between 

 the Celebean and Philippine avifaunas rests on the occurrence of Papuan genera in 

 Mindanao, and perhaps in South Luzon, which likewise occur in Celebes: Cacatua, 

 Tanygnathus, Phlogcenas^ , Hemijjliaga, and Megapodius may be cited. Two genera 

 seem to be confined to Celebes and the Philippines — Prioniturus and Pyrrhocentor ; 

 this last is only known from Mindanao. Megapodius cumingi (Gould) is stated by 

 Camel (v. Martens, op. cit. p. 26) to be found in Mindanao and in Mindoro. The 

 exact habitats of the other genera remain to be determined. The known Philippine 

 genera of the Picariae and Passeres are nearly all Indo-Malayan ; but then they have 

 mostly been as yet only obtained firom the neighbourhood of Manilla. They include 

 characteristic Indian genera unknown in Celebes. Such are, besides Ilierax, Harpactes, 

 Chrysocolaptes, and several other Picidse, Xantholcema, Irena, Copsychus, Cittacincla, 

 Tchitrea, Ixos, Hypsipetes, Partis, and genera such as Lanius and Turdus. 



That Mindanao contains a strong Indian element, however, is shown by the fact that 

 Xantholcema, Irena, and Copsychus have been there obtained; Irena also occurs in the 

 island of Panay. Thus enough is kno-\^Ti of the Philippine ornis to justify anticipation, 

 when it is worked out, of highly interesting zoogeographical facts, but not sufficient to 

 enable us to determine the degree of relationship between the avifauna of the Philippine 

 and Celebean areas. 



' PMogcenas luzonica (Scop.), =cruenia (Gm.), is said by Buzeta to occur in the Calamines (conf. v. Martens, 

 J. fiir 0. 1866, p. 25). 



