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The two forms will stand as: 



Orodytes celebensis celebensis (Meyer and Wiglesworth), and 

 Orodytes celebensis meridionalis (Meyer and Wiglesworth). 



Remarks: — Meyer and Wiglesworth place their Arachnothera? celebensis 

 in Melilestes Salvadori (type, Ptilotis megarhynchus Gray) but say "the 

 foot and tarsus is * * * smaller and more delicate in the Celebes form, 

 the tarsus is indeed about 14 the length of the wing and longer than the 

 middle toe, while in Melilestes megarhynchus the tarsus is about xV longer 

 and equal to the middle toe; the space of bare skin behind and above the 

 eye is also peculiar to the Celebes form. Still it appears to us to stand as 

 near (or nearer) to the typical Melilestes as does M. iliolophus and its allies, 

 and it would be disadvantageous to bury its affinities under a new generic 

 name."i 



As the above shows Melilestes celebensis clearly did not belong in the 

 genus Melilestes, Stresemann^ removed and placed it in Stigmatops Gould, 

 but in my opinion this was not a happy disposition and it seems to me the 

 only solution of the difficulty is to erect a genus for its reception. 



1 Birds Celebes, 2, 1898, 482. 

 2Nov. Zool.,21,1914,393. 



