6. Cisticola cisticola (Teuim.). 



Makassar. 



7. Trichostoma finschi Wald. 



Several specimens shot in October from Makassar. Dr. A. B. Meyer coni|iared 

 one of our skins with his five specimens of June and July in the Dresden Museum. 

 He found them to bo alike, though our skin was slightly browner, specially on the 

 tail and tail-coverts. This is probably because our birds are in very fresh plumage. 



8. Cataponera turdoides Hartert (anted, p. 70). 



In the somewhat rounded wing the first ^jrimary is of about half the length of 

 the second, the fifth or the sixth is longest, the fourth, fifth, and sixth generally 

 not differing much in length. The outer web of some of the middle primaries are 

 slightly emarginated from about the middle. The tarsus is covered with an unljroken 

 lamina in adult birds, only at the lower part a scale or two can be distinguished. 

 In an immature bird before me, however, the ridges of the margins of scales can still 

 be distinguished in the middle part of the tarsus ! This young bird also has pale 

 shaft-lines on the head, and on the breast and abdomen some feathers with pale 

 centres and dark brown margins, like those of some young thrushes, have remained. 

 Behind the eye is a small but conspicuous bare space. The nostrils are lougish; the 

 feathers extend towards the nostrils. There are liristles on the rictus and also on 

 the tips of the feathers of the chin. The colours have been described I.e. 



9. Androphilus everetti Hartert (anted, p. 69). 



This interesting little bird was found all over theBonthain Peak and surrounding 

 hills, from about 2000 feet near Indrulaman to above 7000 feet near the summit. 

 Unless some of the sj)ecimens are wrongly sexed, there is no constant difference in 

 size between the sexes, but some of the birds from the higher elevations are longer, 

 one of them being a perfect giant, with a wing of 64 mm. in length. In some 

 specimens the feathers of the breast have dark shaft-stripes. 



10. Acmonorhynclius aureolimbatus (Wall.). 



Indrulaman and Makassar. Specimens from these places do not differ from those 

 from Northern Celebes. The iris is burnt sienna-colovu'. Bill black ; mandible 

 greyish; legs and claws black. The si)ecies is included in the genus Prtonochilus in 

 the Cat. B. X., though that genus is said to have " a distinct bastard primary," and 

 P. aureolimbatus does not have it. I have therefore provisionally accepted tlie 

 proposed generic name of Acmmiorhynchus for this bird. 



11. Dicaeum celebicum Mull. & Schleg. 

 Makassar and Indndaman. 



12. Dicaeum nehrkorni Bias. 



Herr Prof Dr. Willi. Blasius has been kind enough to compare one of our 

 specimens with the type oi D. nvhrkorni and found I hem to be the same species. It 

 has never been described in a scientific journal. The original description appeared 

 in the Brauiisokwei(jiscfui Anzeiyen, a newspaper (!), and was, I believe, reprinted in 



