MELITHREPTIDiE. 
801 
Chaetoptila angustipluma (Peale). Striped Honey-sucker. 
Entomiza (?) angustipluma Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. vol. viii. Birds, 
p. 147, 1848 : Hawaii. (Fig. Av. Lays. pi. 71 ; Cassin, pi. 11. 
fig. 1.) 
Distr. —Hawaii (extinct). 
Genus PHILEMON V. 
Philemon Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Orn. p. 47, 1816. Type (by sub¬ 
sequent designation, Gray, 1840, p. 15) : Philemon moluccensis 
Gm. 
Philemon inornatus (Gray). (9-275.) Plain Friar-bird. 
Tropidorhynchus inornatus Gray, Genera of Birds, vol. i. p. 125, 
pi. xxxix. 1846 : Timor. 
Tropidorhynchus. vulturinus Pucheran, Voy. Pole Sud, vol. iii. p. 88, 1853: 
Raffles Bay, error=Timor. (Fig. Pole Sud, pi. 18. figs. A & B.) 
Distr. —Timor. 
Philemon cineraceus (Bp.). Grey Friar-bird. 
Tropidorhynchus cineraceus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 390, 
(before Feb. 3rd) 1851 : Timor, error=Kisser Island. 
Philemon hisserensis Meyer, Abhandl. Nat. Wiss. Ges. Isis, Dresden, 1884, 
p. 41 : Kisser Island. 
Distr. —Kisser, Letti, and Moa Islands. 
Philemon moluccensis (Gm.). Moluccas Friar-bird. 
Distr. —Moluccas and Tenimber Group. 
Philemon moluccensis moluccensis (Gm.). (9-275.) 
Merops moluccensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. pt. i. p. 465, 1788 : 
Burn Island. 
Philemon cinerens Veillol, Analyse nouv. Orn. p. 47, 1816 : Buru. 
Tropidorhynchus houruensis Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 31 : 
Buru Island. 
Distr. —Buru Island. 
Philemon moluccensis timorlaoensis Meyer. 
Philemon timorlaoensis Meyer, Abhandl. Nat. Wiss. Ges. Isis, Dresden, 
1884, p. 41 : Tenimber. 
Distr. —Tenimber Group. 
Philemon moluccensis plumigenis (Gray). (9-279.) 
Tropidorhynchus plumigenis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 174 : 
Key Islands. 
Distr—Key Islands. 
