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Another curious feature in the zoology of Celebes is also worthy of attention. I allude to
the absence of several groups which are found on both sides of it, in the Indo-Malay islands
as well as in the Moluccas; and which thus seem to be unable, from some unknown cause, to
obtain a footing in the intervening island. In Birds we have the two families of Podargidæ
and Laniadæ, which range over the whole Archipelago and into Australia, and which yet
have no representative in Celebes. The genera Ceyx among Kingfishers, Criniger among
Thrushes, Rhipidura among Flycatchers, Calornis among Starlings, and Erythrura among
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