VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OP CELEBES. 83 



Ioteeeon, Bonaparte. 



118. Ioteeeon melanocephala (Forster), Zool. Indica, p. 16, pi, 7, "Java" (1781 '). 

 Ptilopus melanocephalus, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 207. 



Hab. Java (type) ; Flores, Sumbawa, Celebes, Sula Islands, Ceram, Sanghir (Schlegel) ; 

 Lombock (Wallace). 



Professor Scblegel (I. c) bas detailed the characters which distinguish the several 

 races of this Pigeon inhabiting the islands of Java, Flores, Celebes, Sula, Ceram, and 

 Sanghir. They undoubtedly should receive distinguishing titles; for until they and 

 analogous forms are separately named, the physical geographer will only find half the 

 truth when studying zoological catalogues. The Celebean bird has the yellow gular 

 patch tinged with orange (conf. Schlegel, I. c), 



Leucoteeeon, Bonaparte. 



119. Leucoteeeon' gulabis (Quoy et Gaimard), Voy. Astr. Zool. i. p. 247, pi. 29, 



"Menado" (1830). 



Hab. Menado (Wallace). 



C. diademata, Temm., C. monacha, Reinwardt, and C. liypogastra, Beinwardt, belonging 

 to the Ptilopodince, were erroneously described by Temminck as inhabiting Celebes 

 (conf. Wallace, Ibis, 1865). 



Caepophaga, Selby. 



120. Caepophaga paulina, Temm. Mus. Lugd. (Columba a?nea,2, Temm., Knipp, Pig. 



i. pi. 4); Bp. Consp. ii. p. 35; Wallace, Ibis, 1865, p. 385; Schlegel, Nederl. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 200. 



Hab. Macassar, Menado, Sula Islands (Wallace). 



A Philippine example in the Leyden Museum is stated by Professor Schlegel (I. c.) to 

 resemble the Celebean bird. But the differential characters it possesses render it likely 

 that the Philippine bird is specifically distinct. The examples in the same collection, 

 said to have been brought from the Mariannes (?), differ but slightly from the Celebean 

 species, according to Professor Schlegel. Both Prince Bonaparte and Mr. Wallace rank 

 this fine Fruit-Pigeon under Ducula, Hodgs. It appears to me to be a typical Carpo- 

 phaga, Selby. 



1 I have not been able to refer to the first edition of Pennant's ' Indian Zoology ; ' but if this species is there 

 named, it will have to take Pennant's title (1769). 



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