36 VISCOUNT WALDEN" ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 



Milvus, Cuvier. 



22. Milvus afbotis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 140; Birds of Austr. i. pi. 21; Wallace, 



Ibis, 1868, p. 16 ; Valkv. Nederl. Ind. pi. 20. fig. 1. 



Hab. Macassar, Timor {Wallace); Australia {Gould). 



I hesitate to include Sumatra within the range of this form, as that habitat rests 

 only on the correct identification of a skeleton in the Leyden Museum. 



Elanus, Savigny. 



23. Elanus hypoleitcus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 127, "Macassar;" Wallace, Ibis, 



1868, p. 17. 

 ? Elanus intermedins, Schlegel, Mus. Pas-Bas, Milvi, p. 7 (1862). 



Hab. Macassar {Wallace) ; and if the same as E. intermedins, Schlegel, North Celebes, 

 Borneo, Java {Schlegel). 



Pernis, Cuvier. 



24. Pernis ptilorhyncha (Temm.), PL Col. livr. viii. pi. 44, " Java et Sumatra " (26th 



July, 1823) ; Verh. Ned. overz. Bezitt. Aves, p. 49, pi. 7, " Sumatra." 



Pernis cristata, Cuv. 1 B. Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 335, "Java" (1829). 



Var. celebensis, Schlegel, Valkv. Nederl. Ind. pi. 26. f. 4; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 17. 



Hab. Celebes only, if distinct from Indian and Malayan species {conf. Wallace, I. c). 



In Mr. J. H. Gurney's opinion the Celebean Pernis should receive a distinct specific 

 title ; and Mr. Wallace writes that it is distinct. I have been unable to examine any 

 examples. 



Baza, Hodgson. 



25. Baza magnirostris, G. E. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. 1844, p. 19, "Philippine 



Islands;" Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 343; Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1866, 

 p. 328 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 40, 75, pi. 28. f. 4, 5. 

 Pernis crassirostris, Kaup, Contrib. Orn. 1850, p. 77. 



Hab. Philippines {type); Celebes, Sulu Islands {Wallace); Borneo {Schlegel). 



Professor Schlegel (Valkv. p. 77) states that the types of Lophotes reinwardtii, 

 Schlegel & Miiller (Verh. Ned. overz. Bezitt. Aves, p. 37, pi. 5. figs. 1, 2, "Celebes"), 

 were not obtained by Reinwardt in Celebes, and that the Dutch travellers have never 

 obtained it in that island. The Professor, while identifying the Celebean Baza with 

 the Philippine species, points out differences which may eventually prove sufficient to 

 justify the Celebean bird being specifically separated from the Philippine. 



In the ' Hand-list ' Mr. Gray has introduced B. reinwardtii as a second Celebean 



1 It seems to have been overlooked that, although Cuvier discriminated this species in 1817, he only conferred 

 a Latin title on it in 1829. 



