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The Honey-sucker, Myza^ belongs to the purely Australasian family of the 
Meliphagidae^ a family which cannot, however, be sharply distinguished from the 
Nectariniidae of the Ethiopian, Oriental and Australian E-egions. The nearest 
affinities of Myza are doubtful (p. 483 of text). 
The Bulbul, Malia^ appears to belong to Oates’ Crater opodinae^ a subfamily 
of the Timeliidae. The geographical limits of the group have not been defined, 
but it is very strongly represented in the Oriental Region and very sparingly 
in Papuasia. The nearest affinities of Malia are uncertain (p. 501 of text). 
Cataponera^ a Babbler, is related to genera of the Oriental Region (p. 504 
of text). 
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Erodes^ an aberrant Starling, is somewhat intermediate between the Indo- 
Australian Calornis and the Oriental Acridotheres (p. 565 of text). 
Platen’s Rail, Aramidopsis, is most closely allied to Ar amides of South 
America (p. 691 of text). 
The remaining three genera are what we have termed III. Class and are 
not of higher taxonomic value than 10 strongly characterized species. They are: 
Spilospizias Charitornis Gazzola. 
The ten species estimated to be of equal value with III. Class genera are: 
1. Microstictus fulms (Q. G.) or wallacei (Tw.) 
2. Hierococcycc crassirostris (Tweedd.) 
3. Cranorrhinus cassidix (Temm.) 
4. Monachalcyon monachus (Bp.), or princeps R. 
5. Pachycephala honensis M. & Wg. 
6. Melilestes celehensis M. & Wg. 
7. Carpophaga poecilorrhoa Briigg. 
8. Phlogoenas tristigmata Bp. 
9. Gymnocreoc rosenbergi (Schl.) 
10. Amaurornis isahellina (Schl.) 
The above ten, equal to HI. Class genera, we propose to term I. Class 
species. Their differences from their nearest allies (not counting local forms of 
them in the Celebesian area itself) are about as great as those between Corrus 
monedula L. and Corvus corone L., or Buteo vulgaris Leach and Aquila 
chrysaetus (L.). 
Then follow 22 II. Class species, differing as markedly from their nearest 
allies outside Celebes as, for instance, Turdus musicus L. from Turdus merula L. 
They are: 
1. Astiir griseiceps Schl. 
2. Accipiter rhodogaster (Schl.) 
3. Trichoglossiis ornatiis (L.) 
4. — meyeri (Tweedd.) 
5. Prioniturus platurus (Vieill.) 
6. Loriculus exilis Schl. 
7. — stigmatus (Miill. Schl.) 
8. lyngipicus temminchi (Malh.) 
Meyer & Wi gl e s w o rtli, Birds of Celebes (May 6th, 1898). 
9. Phoe7iicophaes calorhynchus Temm. 
10. Coracias temmincki (Vieill.) 
11. Hypothymis puella (W all.) 
12. Graucalus bicolor (Temm.) 
13. — temmincki (S. Mllll.) 
14. Dicaeum nehrkorni W. Bias. 
15. Acmonorhynchus aureolimhatus (Wall.) 
16. Zosterops squamiceps (Hart.) 
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