ART. 16. 



BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 



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distribution of the forms inhabiting Celebes it is referred to the 

 southern form. 



A series of males from the north and central mountain region 

 average as follows: 



Ten males, C. f. meyeri. 

 Ten males, C /. plateni. 



Wing. 



mm. 



53. 3 

 51. 5 



Tail. 



mm. 

 35 

 32. 



Culmen. 



mm. 

 18. 6 

 17. 7 



A male taken at Gimpoe, August 11, (No. 252443) has the breast 

 strongly washed with cadmium yellow, and there is a tendency in 

 several other specimens from the mountains to have the chest a 

 little deeper yellow than usual, 



A young female not long from the nest was taken at Besoa, Octo- 

 ber 28, so the breeding season is probably in the autumn, or irregular. 



182. ANTHREPTES MALACENSIS CELEBENSIS Shelley. 



A large series of both sexes and immature: Kapas Bay, July 22 

 and November 18 and 23, 1914; Kwala Besar, August 23, 1914; 

 Soemalata, September 3-8, 1914; Toli Toli, November 28-December 

 14, 1914; Kampa, February 14, 1915; Tandjong Penjoe, February 

 18-27, 1915; Likoepang, January 13-18, and March 9, 1916; Koeala 

 Prang, June 14 and 18, 1916; Manembo Nembo, June 22-24, 1916; 

 Toboli, October 18-23, 1916 ; Kasimbar, December 13, 1916 ; Tinom- 

 boe, December 15, 1916; Manilili, December 16, 1916; Gimpoe, Au- 

 gust 2-29, 1917 ; Rano Lindoe, March 25, 1917. 



Birds from Gimpoe are paler below but as they are August speci- 

 mens this is probably due to bleaching as the Rano Lindoe birds 

 taken in March are like northern skins of the same season. I have 

 only one skin from the south of the island (near Macassar, December 

 18) and it has the breast a more greenish yellow and the throat 

 duller than northern birds, but these may be only individual dif- 

 ferences. 



A. m. celeheTisis stands out from all its related forms in having the 

 yellow of the breast in the male more greenish. The female is still 

 more distinct from the related forms than the male. She has the 

 lower parts grayish with only the breast and belly washed with a 

 light shade of yellow, while in all other forms of the species the 

 breast and belly are quite yellow and even the throat is washed with 

 yellow or even concolor with the breast. 



The immature A. m. ceIeh(Msis has the throat washed with yellow 

 and the remaining under parts are much deeper; in this condition 

 they approach the adult female of Anthreptes malacc&n^is wigles- 



