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After once more reading Professor Blasins' discnssion on " Cyrtosfomus frcnatus- 

 (S. Mull.) var. nov. Plateni" in Zeitschr. /. ges. Ornith. II. pp. 289-291, 

 and comparing the figures on Plate XII. with my birds from Bonthain 

 Peak, it became to me very donbtfal whether it would be possible to separate 

 the form of the Bonthain Peak from tliat of Makassar. AVlien I named my 

 (lissentiens I compared it with a good series of North Celebes specimens, 

 which were named by Dr. A. B. Meyer, who no doubt has of all ornitho- 

 logists the greatest knowledge of the Celebensian avifauna, C. frenata 

 platetti. So it came that I took them to be typical plateni, nor had I any 

 special reason to doubt tlie correctness of tliis view, as Professor Blasins 

 had bestowed the name plateni on southern as well as on northern 

 examples. Professor Blasins now has been kind enough to lend me his 

 type of C. frenata plateni, which, as his article clearly shows, is the South 

 Celebes bird, with which, however, he nnited the North Celebes birds, 

 although stating some sliglif diSerences. I find now, iVom a study of 

 Blasins" type and one male from Makassar in the British Museum, that the 

 Makassar birds are quite unlike the Miuahassa form, being much paler 

 yellow below, and more olive with very little of a green tinge above. 

 Nevertheless they are not exactly like our birds from Bonthain Peak, but 

 still a little darker below, and with a. slight greenish tinge above, while my 

 Bonthain form has none at all. Therefore it would be most desirable to 

 compare a series of Makassar birds with those from Bonthain, of which I 

 have a good material before me now, to finally decide whether the Bonthain 

 birds are constantly different from those of Makassar : bnt at present I must 

 sujjpose, and I believe that this will be found to be quite right, that there 

 are three forms in Celebes : — 



(1) A bird with dark yellow under parts and greenish upperside, inhabiting 

 Northern Celebes. 



(2) A bird with paler underside, darker olive-brown and much less greenisli 

 upperside, found in the low country in South Celebes. 



(3) A bird with still paler underside and still less greenish deep olive-brown 

 upperside, known to occnr on the Bonthain Peak. 



The first of these three, which is undoubtedly different from No. 2, has no name^ 

 and I wish to name it 



Cinnyris frenata meyeri subsj). nov. 



in honour of Dr. A. B. Meyer. 



No. 2 is C. frenata plateni (W. Bias.), sensu strictiore. 



No. 3, if different from No. 2, is C. frenata dissentiens Hart. 



C.f. meyeri is the nearest form of the three to G. frenata frenata. 



To make matters still more interesting, tliongh more complicated again, I am 

 enabled, with my good series of Bonthain birds for comparison, to state that 

 the difference between the latter and those from Saleyer, viz. the still paler 

 underside of the Saleyer form, is well marked and apparentjy constant, 

 and therefore I cannot hesitate any longer to distinguish it as 



Cinnyris frenata saleyerensis subsp. nov. 



Cinnyris fonuae C. frenata dissentiens dictae persimilis, sed subtns valde 

 pallidior. 



