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The Honey-sucker, Myza, belongs to the ijurely Australasian family of the 
Meliphaffidae, a family which cannot, however, he sharply clistinguished from the 
Nectariniidae of the Ethiopian, Oriental and Australian Regions. The nearest 
affinities of Mpza are doubtful (p. 483 of text). 
The Bulbul, Malm, appears to belong to Oates’ Crateropodinae, 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). 
Enodes. 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 fulvus {Q.G.) or wallacei (Tw.) 
2. Hierococcpx amssirostris /Pweedd.) 
3. Cranorrhinus cassidix (Temm.) 
4. Monachalcyon monachus (Bp.), or princeps R. 
5. Packycephala lonensis M. & Wg. 
6. Melilestes celebensis M. & Wg. 
7. Carpophaga poecilorrhoa Briigg, 
8. Phlogoenas tristigmata Bp. 
9. Ggmnocrex rosenbergi (Schl.) 
10. Amaurornis isabellina (Schl.) 
The above ten, equal to III. Class genera, we proi)Ose 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 Corvus 
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, lurdtis musicus L. from Turdus merula L. 
They are : 
1. Astur griseiceps Schl. 
2. Accipiter rhodogaster (Schl.) 
3. Trichoglossus ornatus (L.) 
4. — megeri (Tweedd.) 
5. Prioniturus platurus CVieill.j 
6. Loriculus exilis Schl. 
7. — stigmatus (Miill. Schl.) 
8. Igngipiais temmincki (Malh.) 
Meyer & Wigleswortli, Birds of Celebes (May 0th, 180S). 
9. Phoenicophaes calorhynchus Temm. 
10. Coracias temmincki (Vie ill ) 
11. Hgpothymis puella (Wall.) 
12. Graucalus bicolor (Temm.) 
13. — temmincki (S. Mull.) 
14. Dicaeum nehrkorni W. Bias. 
15. Acmonorhyncfms aiireolimbatus (Wall.) 
16. Zosterops squamiceps (Hart.) 
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