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PRELIMINAEY DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW BIRDS 

 FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN CELEBES. 



By ERNST HARTEET. 



IN a very fiue colleetiou made by Mr. Alkred Everett are some very interesting 

 birds, which are new to science, and which are characterised in the following 

 notes. The most interesting fact illustrated by Me. Everett's collection is the 

 affinity to the avifauna of the mountains of Borneo which some of the species 

 show. Besides these new fomis, the collection contains a number of the species 

 described by Mr. .J. BI'ttikofer in the ^otes of the Ley den Museum 1893, such 

 as Merula celebensis, Stoparola meridionalis, Rhipidura teysmanni, and Pachycephala, 

 meridionalis, and all those recently discovered by Messrs. Sarasin in the same 

 country and described by Messrs. A. B. Meyer & L. W. Wiglesworth in the 

 Abhandl. und Bcricltte des Kuiiigl. Zoolof/. wild Anthvojiol. Ethnogr. Mus. 

 Dresden, i.e. Zosferops anomala, Crypitoloplia surashiorujn, Melilestes celebensis 

 meridionalis, and Pachycephala bonthaina. 



A full list of the collection will be given in the next number of this journal. 



1. Androphilus everetti sp. nov. 



Supra rufo-lirniineus, 'stria snjierciliari grisea, regione auricnlari fusco-grisea, 

 albido striata, guttnre albido, pectore griseo, abdomine medio albicante-brnnneo, 

 corporis lateribus, regione anali, tibiis subcaudalibusqne rufo-branneis. Long. tot. 

 cr. 140—1.50 mm., al. 55 — 50, caud. 56 — 50, tars. 23, culm. 10, digit, med. 23. 



Hub. Bonthain Peak, South Celebes. 



This bird, of which a series of both sexes was collected in October 1895, on 

 Bonthain Peak and the hills surrounding it, at elevations of from about 2500 to 

 above 6000 feet, is of great interest. 



It agrees with Aiidrop/iilus accentor Sharpe from Mt. Kina Balu in Borneo 

 (the type of which is before me) in all essential characters, and especially in having 

 only ten rectrices, a most important character first pointed out quite recently by 

 Me. Ogilvie Grant. In the sliape of the wing it agrees also fairly well with 

 A. accentor, the first primary being about three quarters of the second in length, 

 the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh nearly equal and longest, the whole wing very 

 full and rounded. The outer rectrices are about half as long as the central, and 

 they gradually increase in length towards the middle. The rectrices are loose and 

 soft, much as in Uphenoeacas. The sexes are similar in colour. The tarsus is 

 clothed with large scales, which are very distinct at the lower end, but partly fused 

 in the middle of the tarsus. 



Above dark rufous brown, darker and less rufous on the head and neck. A 

 fairly well defined grey superciliary line. Chin and throat greyish white; ear-coverts 

 dark brownish grey, with white shaft-lines. Priniarios deep brown, bordered with 

 rufous l)rown outside. Breast dark greyish. Sides of body, under tail-coverts, 

 thighs, and vent rufous brown. Under wing-coverts dark brown. " Iris chocolate 

 brown. Bill black, base of mandible pale brown. Legs and claws olive-brown." 

 (A. Everett.) 



