( lfi2 ) 



maroon ; rectrices deep brown, with brownish golden edges ; sides of head iind 

 neck, chin, throat, and chest white, with a faint pearly greyish tinge ; breast, 

 abdomen, and nndor tail-coverts deep brownisli chestnut, nnder wing-coverts a little 

 jmler. "Iris diu'k brown ; feet blackish : beak bluish grey; commissure corneous." 

 L. t. ca. 100 mm., a. 51 — 54, c. 40, t. 14, r. 9. 



The skin marked " ? " is like those of tlie tnales, but the rnmp, upper tail- 

 coverts, and edges of central rectrices lighter and more yellowish. 



So little did I expect a new Munia at Palos Bay, that I had tlie skins in the 

 Museum for several months before I paid any attention to them. 



15. Scissirostrum duhium (Lath.) — Tawaya. 



16. Dicrurus leucops Wall. — Uongala. " Iris white ; feet and beak black." 



1". Oriolus celebensis (y^aXA.). — A number of orioles from Tawaya and Dongala 

 belong to the northern form 0. celeben»is celebensis, and not to ('. c. meri- 

 dionalis. The black band is always more or less conspicuonsly interrupted 

 on the nape and narrower than in 0. c. meridionalis, in which it is broader 

 and quite continuous. 



18. Streptocitta tortjuata (Temm.). — Dongala. "Iris very dark brown; feet and 



beak black." Again the northern and not the southern species. The throat 

 of the one male is mixed black and white. I see an occasional white feather 

 on the throat in many specimens in the Tring Museum ; but I do not know 

 whether this is, as I think, due to immaturity. 



19. Gratica Im leucopi/gius Bi^. i ?, Dongala. ?. " Iris yellowish white ; feet and 



beak black." 

 '10. Aita?nides bicolor (Terma.). — cJ ?, Tawaya. <S . " Iris dark umber: feet black; 

 bill pale blue ; commissure darker." $. "Iris dark umber; feet blackish; 

 bill pale blue ; commissure paler." 



21. Vohocivora morio (S. Mull.). — Two adult, or nearly adult, males and two fully 



»,A\\\t females from Tawaya. The two females are rufous below, narrowly 

 barred with black from the chin to the under tail-coverts, the latter only 

 liaving some narrow irregular bars at the bases, being quite uniform towards 

 the tips ; under wing-coverts narrowly barred with black. A female 

 from Indrulaman (Nov. Zool. III. p. 156) (? probably immature) is very 

 much paler below, being only in the middle of the abdomen buff or rather 

 pale rusty rufous ; the under wing-coverts with a few not very conspicuous 

 bars ; the under tail-coverts much paler than in those from Tawaya. 

 Another specimen (marked female) is evidently immature, and apparently 

 closely resembles the one described in Ahh. und Ber. Mus. Dresden, 1896, 

 p. 10, from South- West Celebes. Males from South Celebes do not seem 

 to differ materially from northern examples, tliough I have not seen such a 

 black one from the south ; but that is merely a sign of age. The males from 

 Tawaya do not seem to differ from northern males. J. " Iris deep chestnut; 

 feet black, soles whitish; bill black." ? . Bare parts as in 6. 



22. Lnlage leucopygialis Wald. — S ? , Tawaya. 



23. Ihjpothymis puella QS^W.). — Several wafci from Tawaya. " Iris chestnut; feet 



dark blue ; beak blue, tip black." 



24. Ger>jgonefla>:eola Cab. — Dongala and Tawaya. " Iris crimson or red-brown : 



beak black : in one, evidently younger, bird the base of the mandible is 

 pale." It is possible that the study of a series of good skins from Saleyer 



