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Show 1871.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 337 not sufficient to enable us to determine the degree of relationship between the avifauna of the Philippine and Celebean areas. " The absence of the two genera Criniger and Rhipidura in Celebes constitutes one of the many peculiarities of its ornis. Criniger, represented in the neighbouring Sula Islands by a peculiar species, possesses other representatives in many of the Moluccan islands and throughout the Indo-Malayan subregion. "Rhipidura is still more widely and largely represented in the whole Australian region, and in the Indo-Malayan subregion, having representatives in all the islands of the Malay archipelago, excepting Celebes and the Sula Islands. " Then, again, the presence of the two genera Coracias and Myiolestes is equally remarkable; for they are both unknown in any part of the Indo-Malayan region, and only reappear on the mainland of Asia. "After rejecting all those species whose Celebean origin does not rest upon the most undoubted authority, I find that the number of birds inhabiting Celebes amounts to, at least, one hundred and ninety-three. Of this number sixty-five are peculiar to the island. Twenty more are found also in the Sula Islands, or the Sanghir group, making a total of eighty-five species peculiar to Celebes and the two gronps just mentioned. Of the remaining one hundred and eight species, fifty-five have Indian affinities (that is, are elsewhere only found in the Indian region as opposed to the Australian), though many extend beyond the limits of the Indian region; fourteen are found in the Australian and not in the Indian region, and twenty-eight are common to both regions; eight more species seem to be confined to the Moluccan islands ; and three, not included above, are doubtfully found beyond Celebes: these are Elanus hypoleucos, Ephialtes menadensis, and the Celebean form of lotreron melanocephala." This paper will be published entire in the Society's ' Transactions.' The following papers were read :- 1. A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of China and its Islands, with Descriptions of N e w Species, References to former Notes, and occasional Remarks. By R O B E RT S W I N H O E , F.Z.S. [Received March 15, 1871.] 1. GYPAETUS BARBATUS, CUV. ; Ibis, 1867, p- 413 ; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 430. I have seen, in the museum attached to the Catholic Mission at Pekin, a Bearded Vulture, procured by Pere Armand David in the mountains west of that city. There is also a specimen of it in the British Museum, marked " China." PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1871, No. XXII. |