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Show 1873.] LORD WALDEN ON PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 523 Celebes, the Philippine archipelago is the least rich in Indian genera and species of all the subareas of the Indian region; while, like Celebes, it is stamped with a marked Papuan character by the presence of Cacatua and Megapodius, and by its richness in members of the Psittacidae, Alcedinidae, and Columbidae. " A glance at the table below will show the dearth existing in the Philippines of Indo-Malayan forms. Nine of these absent genera occur in Celebes, while the remaining sixtv genera are wanting in both areas. On the other hand, thirty Indo-Malayan genera wanting in Celebes occur in the Philippines. " Table showing the principal Indo-Malayan Genera wanting in the Philippines.-NB. Those occurring also in Celebes are marked with an asterisk. *Polioaetus. *Neopus. Ketupa. Bulaca. Phodilus. Batrachostomus. Eurylaimus. Psarisomus. Cory don. Cymbirhynchus. Calyptomena. Nyctiornis. Chalcoparia. * Anthreptes. *AHthopyga. * Arachnothera. *Prionochilus. * Geocichla. Brachypteryx. ^Trichostoma. Mixornis. Malacopteron. Macronus. Alcippe. Timalia. Garrulax. Pomatorhinus. Pteruthius. Analcipus. Myiophonus. Phyllornis. Iora. Brachypodius. Iole. Criniger. Enicurus. Platylophus. Tephrodornis. Buchanga. Dissemurus. Chaptia. Bhringa. Hemipus. Tchitrea. ^Myiolestes. Cissa. Temnurus. Dendrocitta. Crypsirhina. Eulabes. Ploceus. Mirafra. Palceornis. Megalaima. Meiglyptes. Hemicircus. Micropternus. Chrysophlegma. Tiga. Sasia. Dendrophila. Rhopodytes. Coccystes. P eloper dix. Perdicula. Pavo. Aryusianus. Polyplectron. Euplocamus. "The number of species peculiar to the Philippine archipelago, namely 107, amounts to nearly half of the total of known Philippine birds. This proportion is considerably less in the island of Celebes, where, out of a known total of 205 species, 73 only are peculiar to that island. Not one single species is common to the Philippines and Celebes which does not at the same time possess a more extended range ; and Prioniturus is the only genus which is common to the two areas and unknown to extend beyond. The Papuan affinities of the Philippine ornis are only generic • for no Philippine species with a Papuan range occurs which does not also range into other areas. On the other hand, the great bulk of Philippine birds, exclusive of the Palaearctic, which are nearly all migratory |