ABT. 16. 



BIEDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 



mountains are above 2,000 meters, the level plain is said to be about 1,300 

 meters, or perhaps more. The plain is perhaps 2 or 3 miles wide by about 

 3 miles long and most or the area is covered with several varieties of long coarse 

 grasses and reeds; in several places there are wet rice fields and the natives 

 have made a few clearings on the lower slopes of the mountains. In some 

 places the lower slopes are covered with grass. 



When the United States entered the World's War, Mr. Raven 

 placed himself at the disposal of the authorities at Manila, but 

 continued to collect birds until early in 1918. While awaiting orders 

 he made a scouting voyage around the south coast of Celebes, col- 

 lecting no birds, however. He then returned home. 



Some of the above localities were visited several times and he 

 seems to have crossed the northern peninsula more than once. I 

 had hoped that Mr. Eaven would supply me with detailed informa- 

 tion on the character of the country of his various collecting stations 

 but before he could do so he left for Africa on a long collecting trip 

 and then for Australia. Rather than delay the report upon his 

 Celebes work any longer, I have decided to publish this catalogue of 

 the birds collected on the island, relying for the localities upon his 

 field catalogues, the specimens, and a large scale map upon which Mr. 

 Raven has marked his route. 



It is quite unnecessary to say that the collections were very large ; 

 most of the species in good series of well-prepared skins. All the 

 skins were prepared personally by Mr. Raven, who had no other 

 white man with him and found it too difficult to teach the Buganese 

 to skin birds. His trip to Lake Lindoe was made by pack train of 

 ponies with pack saddles devised and made by him. On his last trip 

 into the interior his supplies from the United States were held in 

 Singapore on account of the war, and he had to subsist upon the 

 country, which he found in a deplorable condition on account of a 

 prolonged and almost unprecedented drought. 



In several preliminary papers ^ the following birds have been 

 named from Mr. Raven's Celebesian collection: 



Scolopax celehensis. 

 Atias swperciliosa fercna. 

 RlMTTiphococcyx centralis. 

 Collocalia vestita aenigma. 

 Caprimulgus afjinis propinquus. 

 DendroMastes hyperythra jug- 



osae. 

 Celebesia dbhotti. 

 Gataponera ahditiva. 

 Megalurus celehensis. 



Cryptolopha nesophilcu 

 Pachycephala plti/viosa. 

 Co7'acomis raveni. 

 Zosterops atrifrons surda. 

 Pseudozosterops striaticeps. 

 Munia punctulata particeps. 

 Lamprocorax montosa. 

 Enodes erythrophrys centralis. 

 Dicrurojysis montana. 



2 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 31, 1918, pp. 155-160 ; vol. 32, 1919, pp. 93-96 ; vol. 33, 

 1920, pp. 55-58; vol. 34, 1921, pp. 55-58. 



