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few days later we had to go back to Dougala to catch the steamer. If I liad stayed 

 I conld easily have reached Tnmba and got many good things, but considering what 

 the Sarasins have done in Celebes, I hated to waste time that might be better spent 

 in other islands.* 



"The country near Palos Bay was actnally drier than Makassar, while in Toli 

 Toll (Tontoli), only 200 miles beyond, the climate is like that of Singapore — rain 

 every day, and a pleasant flora, I hear, like tliat of the Minahassa. Though now 

 the steamers stop at Dongala — formerly a little rendezvous of Bnginese pirates — 

 nobody at Makassar knew anything about the place. That is the trouble of going 

 to new places ! 



The insects and birds seem to l)e a mixture of the well-known Menado and 

 Makassar forms. . . ." 



I shall give a complete list of the birds from north and south of Palos Bay, as 

 it will be not without value for the knowledge of the exact distribution of the 

 Celebes birds. 



I. BIRDS COLLECTED IN AUGUST 1896 ON BONTHAIN PEAK. 



1. Merula celehensis Bvittik.— J?, 6U00 to 7U00 feet. "Iris dark brown; feet 



ochreons brown; bill orange-ochraceous, duller above." 



2. Pratincola cnprata (L.). — From the lower hills to (jUOO feet. " Iris of 



<? chestnut." 



3. Phyllergates ricdeli Mey. & Wigl.— c? ? , 3000 and 6000 feet. " Iris <? pale 



umber, ? greyish brown; feet pale brown or olive-brown ; maxilla blackish ; 

 mandible reddish ochreons." The young male is coloured like the adult 

 female. 



4. Cisficohi cisticola (Temm.). — 6, 5000 feet. "Iris pale brown ; feet i)ale brown; 



bill blackish; mandible pale, except on tip." 



5. Tricliostoma Jinsehi Wald. — Only met with in the low country. " Iris pale 



red-brown ; feet pale purplish ; maxilla blackish ; mandible bluish horu- 

 colonr." 



6. ^wf/ro;;/^//;^*- fcTmV^/ Hartert.— ?, 0000 to 7000 feet. Wing 68-2 mm. "Feet 



dark fuscous ; bill nearly black." 



7. Acmonorhynckiis aureolimbatus (Wall.).— Only met with in the low countr\- at 



the foot of Bouthain Peak. " Iris red-brown; bill and feet black." 



8. Dicaeum celebtcum Miill. & Schleg.— Low country and 1000 feet. "Iris of 



S ad. dark brown ; bill and feet black." One young /e?K«fe from 4000 feet 

 seems to belong to this species, though I am not quite sure about it. " Its 

 iris is deep brown ; feet blackish ; maxilla black ; mandible at base and 

 gape dull orange." This specimen is not B. nehrlwrni, as the bill is too 

 stout for that species, though in colour it is like young specimens of it. 



9. D. nehrkorni W. Bias.— 4000 to 6000 feet. 



10. Cinnyris frenata dissentiens Hartert.— Both sexes and pulli from the lower 

 hills up to 6000 feet. " Iris deep brown ; feet and beak black." 



* We are sorry to say that we cannot agree with our friend's calculation. The Sarasins were neither 

 siiccialists in ornithology nor in entomology, anil collecting birds and lepidoptera was by no means their 

 principal object durintr their travels in Celebes. A longer stay in the higher country of Tumba (or Tuba) 

 would no doubt have been of some use for llr. Doherty. Only a longer stay can result in really good 

 collections, unless totally unknown islands are visited, whence everything is of interest, and such .arc rare 

 now ; and even there a too much hun-ied stay is regrettable.— K. H. 



