VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 

 Dimensions. 



81 



C. purpurascens, G. R. Gray 

 C. amboinensis, G. R. Gray 



C. minor (Mull.') 



C. chalybea (Horsf.) 



C. insidiator (Raffi.) ? 



„ ? .... 



9 

 ?> >> 



C. neglecta, nob 



C. crassirostris, nob 



C. cantoroides, G. R. Gray 



Wing. 



inches. 

 4-250 

 3-875 

 3-875 

 3-750 

 4-000 

 3-625 

 3-750 

 4-125 

 4-000 

 3-750 



Tail. 



inches. 

 4-750 

 3-500 

 2-500 

 2-500 

 2-875 

 2-625 

 2-750 

 3-250 

 4-125 

 2-500 



Bill. 



inch. 



■5625 



•5000 



•5000 



•5000 



•5000 



•5000 



•5000 



•5625 



■5000 



•5000 



Tarsus. 



inch. 



•8750 

 •8125 

 •7500 

 •7500 

 •8125 

 •8125 

 •8125 

 •8750 

 •8750 

 •8125 



Locality. 



Cape York. 



Amboyna. 



Timor. 



Java. 



Malacca. 



Sarawak. 



Cambodja. 



Celebes. 



Lombock. 



Mysol. 



Scissieosteum, Lafresnaye. 



114. Scissieosteum dubium (Latham), Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xviii. no. 5 (1801), ex Lath. 

 Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 73. no. 11, descr. orig. 



Scissirostrum pagei, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 93, "Manadoj" Mag. Zool. 1845, pi. 59; Wallace, 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 141 ; Malay Archip. i. p. 430. 



Hab. Scarce at Macassar, plentiful near Menado {Wallace). 



We owe the identification of this most anomalous form with the Lanius dubius, 

 Lath., to Dr. Hartlaub (Arch. Nat. xiii. 2. p. 57). Notwithstanding Prince Bonaparte's 

 incredulity (Consp. i. p. 423), a reference to Latham's original description, taken from 

 a specimen " at Mr. Thompson's, Little St. Martin's Lane, London, but without any 

 history of its manners or country annexed," leaves no doubt of its identity. 



The sequence and relative proportions of the quills in this species are the same as in 

 Calornis. The structure of the tail is similar to that of Calornis metallica (Temm.). 

 The bill resembles most nearly, in its massiveness and general outline, that of JEulabes 

 javanus, Cuv. ; but the peculiar position of the nostrils, situated in narrow and deep 

 ascending grooves, is quite unique. The sole existing representative of a subfamily (?) 

 long since extinct, its systematic place seems to between Calornis and Eulabes. 



COLUMB.E. 

 TREEONIDtE. 



Osmoteeeon, Bonaparte. 

 115. OsMOTEEROtf veenans (Linn.), Mantissa, p. 526 (1771), ex Briss. Orn. i. p. 143, 

 " Philipp. Ins. ;" Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 789, ex Linn. ; Wallace, Ibis, 1863, p. 320. 

 Columba viridis, Scop. Del. PI. Insub. ii. p. 94 (1786), ex Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. G-uin. p. 110, 

 pi. 64, d , pi- 65, ? , " iles de Lucon et D'Antigue." 

 vol. viii. — paet ii. May, 1872. 



