42 VISCOUNT "WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 



Founded on a single example of a female in the Leyden Museum. Allied to Y. Msuki, 

 but considered a good species by Temminck and Bonaparte. 



Prince Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 129) described a specimen of a "Woodpecker, Picus 

 sanguineus, Lichtenst. (Cat. Hamb. p. 17), which was wrongly labelled in the Leyden 

 Museum as coming from Celebes, under the title of Venilia albertuli. 



MEEOPID^I. 



Meeops, Linnseus. 



37. Merops philippinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13 1 (Vindob.), i. p. 183. no. 5 (1767), ex 



Brisson. 



Apiaster pkilippensis major, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 560, " Philippine Islands." 



Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.) ; Indian region. 



Examples of the Bee-eater, usually referred to Brisson's Philippine species, from 

 North-east India, Candeish, Malabar, Coorg, Ceylon, Sumatra, and Java, are undistin- 

 guishable ; and my Celebean specimens do not appear to differ. 



In the Hand-list, no. 1208, Mr. G. E. Gray keeps the species which inhabits India, 

 Ceylon, Java, Mores, Lombok, and Timor separate from the Philippine bird, and refers 

 it to Merops daudini, Cuvier. Cuvier bestowed this title (Eegne Anim. i. p. 442) on 

 Levaillant's GuSpier daudin (pi. 14). Levaillant distinctly states that he described 

 his species from examples brought from the Philippines by Sonnerat and Poivre. The 

 title of Merops daudini therefore applies to a Philippine species, and cannot be used for 

 the Indian species even if the Indian bird really does differ. 



38. Merops ornatus, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxv, "New Holland" (1801); 



Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 147 ; P. Z. S. 1862, p. 338. 



Hab. Celebes [Wallace); Java {mus. nostr.); Flores, Lombock, Timor, Sula Islands, 

 Sumbawa, Ternate, Mysol, New Guinea {Wallace); Gilolo {Bernstein); New South 

 Wales, South Australia {Gould); Clarence Eiver, Port Albany {mus. nostr.). 



Sula-Island examples perfectly agree with Australian. The Philippine Bee-eater 

 referred to this species by Von Martens (J. fur Orn. 1866, p. 17), seems to belong to 

 another species allied to M. viridis, Linn. 



Meropogon, Bonaparte. 



39. Meropogon eorstesti (Temm.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 164, "Celebes" (1850); Schlegel, 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 8; Meyer, J. fur O. 1871, p. 231. 



Hab. Tondano {Forsten) ; Eurukan {Meyer). 



Mr. Wallace failed in obtaining this species (Ibis, 1860, p. 142). 



1 In the twelfth edition (" Holmise ") the title of this species was omitted by the printer's mistake. 



