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they become A.japonica, Bp. To the southward they are found in Bengal, Burma, 

 and Cochin China. In the Malaccan peninsula they bear the title of A. malaccensis, 

 Eyton, in the Andamans, N. affinis, Tytler; while of the Indo-Malayan Islands, 

 Sumatra contains the type of 8. scutulata, Baffles ; Borneo, A. borneensis, Bp. ; and 

 the Philippines, N. philijapensis, Bp. (Compt. Eend. xli. p. 655, 1855). A skeleton in 

 the Leyden Museum is our only evidence of Java possessing a species of this group, to 

 which A. florensis, Wallace, ex Flores, appears also to belong. The Madagascar N. 

 madagascariensis, Bp., so closely resembles the Indian Ninox, that Dr. Hartlaub 

 (Faun. Madagasc.) considers that it can hardly be separated as even a local race 

 (conf. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1869, p. 453). Enough has been said to show that all the 

 local varieties have yet to be rigidly compared with one another before the exact title 

 of the Celebean Ninox can be absolutely determined. 



Steix, Linneeus. 



84. Steix eosenbebgi, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. iii. p. 181, " Celebes " (1866); Wallace, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 26. 



Hah. Molido, Boni, Gorontalo (Rosenberg); Menado (mus. nostr.); Macassar 

 ( Wallace). 



A very distinct and fine species. 



PICARLE. 



PICIDiE. 



Mulleeipicus, Bonaparte. 



35. Mulleeipicus fulvus (Quoy et Gaimard), Voy. Astrol. i. p. 228, pi. 17. f. 2, c?, 



" Celebes " (1830) ; Malh. Monogr. i. p. 53, pi. 14. f. 1, d, f. 2, ? . 



Hab. Macassar, Menado (mus. nostr.). 



The affinities of this interesting species are nearer to M.pulverulentus (Tern.) than to 

 the group of large black-and-white species represented by P.javensis. Malherbe (I. c.) 

 erroneously referred P. fulvigaster, Drap. (Diet. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 621, ex Java), to this 

 species, instead of to P. javensis, <3 , Horsf. (1822), =P. horsfieldii, 6, Wagler (1827), 

 =P. leucog aster, Beinw. (1830). 



Yungipicus, Bonaparte. 



36. Yujtoipicus temmijtckii (Malherbe), Eev. Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 529, "Celebes;" 



Malh. Monogr. i. p. 155, pi. 36. f. 3, $ . 



Hab. Celebes (Mus. Lugd.) ; Macassar (Wallace). 

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