VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 



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Volvocivora, Hodgson. 

 87. Volvocivora morio (S. Miiller), Verhandel. Land- en Volkenk. p. 189, "Celebes" 



(1839-44); Hartlaub, J. fur Orn. 1865, p. 155. (PI. VIII. fig. 1.) 

 Edoliosoma melanolcema, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 5099, "Celebes" (1869). 



Hal. Tondano, Gorontalo (Hartlaub) ; Macassar (mm. nostr.). 



This and several Indo-Malayan and Papuan species are classed by Dr. Hartlaub (I. c.) 

 under Campephaga, Vieillot, the type of that genus being the African Campephaga 

 nigra, Vieill. This species, in its turn, Dr. Hartlaub transfers to Lesson's genus 

 Lanicterus. I venture, however, to refer the Celebean bird to Volvocivora, Hodgs., as 

 it is nearly allied to the type of that genus, Lanius silens, Tickell (1833), = Ceblepyris 

 lugubris, Sundev. (1837), = Volvocivora melaschistos, Hodgs. (1837). 



On examination I find that Edoliosoma melanolcema, a title published without descrip- 

 tion, refers to S. Miiller' s species ; while the E. morio, of the Hand-list, no. 5097, appears 

 to be C.fimbriatus, Temm. The British-Museum examples of the last are noted from 

 Celebes ; but that locality requires further confirmation. 



Lalage, Boie. 

 88. Lalage leucopygialis, n. s. (PI. VIII. fig. 2.) 



Hah. Menado (mus. nostr.). 



S. Miiller, Hartlaub, O. Finsch, and others have hitherto included Celebes within 

 the range of the Lalage of Java, Turdus dominicus, P. L. S. Miiller, =T. terat, Bodd., 

 =T. orientalis, Gm. Two examples of a Lalage, one of an adult male, and the other 

 of an adult female, received by me from Menado, are to be readily distinguished from 

 the Javan bird by having the lower back and rump pure white, the long upper tail- 

 coverts only being grey. In this respect the Celebean Lalage agrees with L. mela- 

 noleuca (Blyth) from the Philippines ; but that species is without a white supercilium 

 (fide Hartl. J. fur Orn. 1865, p. 163). 



This is probably the L. leucopygialis of Mr. Gray's Hand-list ; but as no description 

 is given, his title cannot be noticed. 



The Lalage which inhabits South-eastern Borneo differs from the Javan form in its 

 longer wing and broader though not longer bill. 



