VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OE CELEBES. 67 



ARTAMIDtE. 



Artamus, Vieillot. 



82. Artamus monachus, Temm. ; Bp. Conspectus, i. p. 343, " Celebes " (1850) ; Wallace, 



P. Z. S. 1862, p. 340; Ibis, 1860, p. 141. (PI. VI. fig. 1.) 

 Hab. Mountain districts of 'North Celebes, as well as the Sula Islands (Wallace). 

 The diagnosis by Mr. Wallace was taken from Sula examples. Neither does it, nor 



do Sula individuals (mus. nostr.) altogether agree with the description given by Prince 



Bonaparte (I. c). 



83. Artamus leucorhynchus (Linn.) : Mantissa Plant, p. 524, ex Brisson, " Manilla " 



(1771). 



Lanius manillensis, Briss. Ornith. ii. p. 180, "Manilla," descr. orig. (1760). 



leucorhynchus, Gm. S. N. ed. 13, i. p. 305, ex Brisson (1788). 



dominicanus, Gm. op. cit. p. 307, ex Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 55, pi. 25. 



? Lanius leucogaster, Valenc. Mem. du Mus. vi. p. 27, " Timor " (1820). 

 Artamus leucopygialis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 17, "Australia." 



s, Temm. ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 344, " Nov. Guinea, Timor." 



Leptopteryw leucorhynchus (Linn.) ; Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 244, " Java." 



Lanius leucorhynchus, Linn. ; Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 306, " Sumatra." 



Artamus leucogaster (Valenc); "Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 28; Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 555; 



Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 324. 

 ■ leucorhynchus, Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 141. 



Hab. Timor, Flores, Lombock, Bouru, and the whole archipelago from Sumatra to 

 New Guinea, Celebes (Wallace); Sumatra (Baffles); Java (Horsfield); Andamans 

 (Beavan) ; Cape York, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Mysol, Menado, Manilla, Andamans, 

 Java (mus. nostr.). 



I am unable to distinguish individuals of the white-bellied Swallow-shrike inhabiting 

 the Philippines, Andamans, Java, Lombock, Mysol, Australia, and Celebes. In colora- 

 tion they appear to be absolutely identical. In dimension, with the exception of the 

 large Celebean form, they vary but little. I have therefore included all under the 

 oldest title given by Linnaeus to the Philippine bird. The Celebean is much the 

 largest, and ought, perhaps, to receive a separate specific name. Mr. Wallace (P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 485) entitles the Timor bird A. leucogaster, var.; but it was from Timor 

 specimens that Valenciennes described A. leucogaster. 



A. mentalis, Jard. (Fidjee Islands), and A. melaleucus (Forsten), a good species (New 

 Caledonia), belong to this group. A. monachus (Temm.) ought, perhaps, to be also 

 included, 



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