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yellowish olive, hiding the under color; under wing-coverts like the breast; 

 remiges below fuscous, the inner primaries and secondaries bordered 

 slightly on the inner web with tilleul-buff. Wing, 82. 5; tail, 67.5; culmen, 

 14; tarsus, 23; middle toe, 13.5 mm. 



The female quite different, may be described as follows: above, raw 

 umber, lighter and with a grayish cast on top of head; tail sepia, the 

 feathers edged on the outer web with argus brown, but this color not 

 quite reaching the tip; upper tail-coverts, argus brown; below buffy 

 brown, lighter on the chin and with a pronounced lemon yellow wash 

 on middle of belly; under tail-coverts ochraceous-tawny ; wings prout's 

 brown, the inner webs of the primaries and outer secondaries fuscous; 

 under wing-coverts grayish olive with a slight yellowish tinge along the 

 margin of the wing ; the remiges where they rest against the body narrowly 

 bordered with light ochraceous buff. 



Remarks. — Besides the type and adult female described above, there 

 are a young male, in the plumage of the female, from the type locality 

 and an adult female from Goenoeng Lehio. The wing and tail in the 

 type specimen are in partial molt. The only female that has an appar- 

 ently perfect tail has it slightly rounded. 



Cataponera abditiva, pp. now 



Type, adult female, U. S. National Museum, No. 251.986, Rano Rano, 

 Celebes, December 21, 1917. Collected by H. C. Raven (original No. 

 4815). 



Above mummy brown, shading into dresden brown on the forehead 

 and crown; below dresden brown, shading into buckthorn brown on the 

 belly; a rather broad superciliary line extending back over the ear-coverts 

 and widening posteriorly and a spot on the lower eye-lid, black; upper 

 tail-coverts, tail, remiges, and the longer under tail-coverts mars brown; 

 bill (in dried skin) ochraceous orange. Wing, 129; tail, 109; culmen, 25; 

 tarsus, 39; middle toe, 26 mm. 



Remarks. — This species is so very different from the description and 

 plate of Cataponera turdoides Hartert given in Meyer and Wiglesworth* 

 that it scarcely needs comparison. Hartert's species come from the 

 south while the present comes from the central mountainous part of the 

 island. Only the type was secured. 



Celebesia, gen. nov. 



Simliar to Malindangia Mearns but bill proportionally narrower (width 

 just forward of the nostril equal to the depth instead of broader); fifth 

 primary (counting from the outside) shorter than the third instead of 

 longer; rectrices more rounded; plumage not so soft in texture; and color 

 pattern different. 



Type. — Celebesia abbotti. 



Celebesia abbotti, f sp. nov. 

 Type, adult male, U. S. National Museum, No. 252,125, Rano Rano, 

 Celebes, December 12, 1917. Collected by H. C. Raven (original No. 



4752). 



* Birds Celebes, 2, 1898, 503, pi. 29. 

 t Named in honor of Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



