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Upper-parts, including the lesser wing-coverts, slate-gray; lores, super- 

 ciliary, auriculars, and throat, deep shining black; remaining under-parts, 

 white; wings (except the lesser coverts) black, the feathers edged out- 

 wardly with the color of the back; bend of wing blackish; under wing- 

 coverts, white; middle tail feathers slightly darker than the back with an 

 irregular line along the shaft towards the tip and shaft, black; remaining 

 tail feathers blackish, the three outer with a sub-terminal band of deep 

 neutral gray, widest on the outer — and almost disappearing on the third, 

 all the tail feathers narrowly bordered at the tip with white, this almost 

 obsolete as the middle feathers are approached; thighs black. Wing, 

 114; tail, 81; culmen, 20; tarsus, 25.5; middle toe, 17.5 mm. 



Remarks. — There are seven males and four females in the collection, 

 all from the type locality. The females only differ from the males in 

 having the sides of face and throat slate gray instead of shining black. 

 Celebesia evidently represents Malindangia (from the mountains of Min- 

 danao) in the highlands of Celebes. 



Cryptolopha nesophila, sp. now 



Type. — adult male, U. S. National Museum, No. 251,146, Goenoeng 

 Lehio, Celebes, January 19, 1917. Collected by H. C. Raven (original No. 

 3424). 



Above citrine, deepening on top of head and nape into medal bronze; 

 superciliary stripe barium yellow; loral streak dusky; post ocular streak 

 color of the head; below including cheeks and ear-coverts citron yellow, 

 streaked with whitish and spotted on the chest with obscure spots of buffy 

 citrine; under tail-coverts citron yellow; flanks yellowish citrine; wings 

 chaetura drab, the feathers edged externally with the color of the back, 

 the tips of the greater coverts a little paler but not forming a bar; 

 bend of wing edged with citron yellow; under wing coverts whitish; remiges 

 below hair brown, the feathers where they rest against body bordered with 

 whitish or internally pale buff; tail above olive with a citrine wash, the 

 outer edges of the feathers brighter basally. Wing, 58; tail, 40; culmen, 11; 

 tarsus, 20.5; middle toe, 9.5 mm. 



Remarks. — In addition to the type, there are four males and one female 

 from the type locality, a female from the Lindoe Trail, and a good series 

 of both sexes from Rano Rano. 



The nearest ally of this species is evidently Cryptolopha sarasinorum 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth, from which it differs in lacking the crown stripe 

 and the white on the two outer rectrices. 



