ART. 16. 



BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES — RILEY. 



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Family MELIPHAGIDAE. 



HONEYEATERS. 

 183. MYZOMELA CHLOROPTERA CHLOROPTERA Walden. 



A fine series, mostly males, from Goenoeng Kalabat, April 12, 

 1916; and Toemaratas, July 4-9, 1916. 



The series of adult males is very uniform. The breast and belly 

 rather strongly washed with sulphur yellow; the scapulars, wings, 

 and tail distinctly black; the remiges edged with warbler green. A 

 series of five males from south Celebes and Saleyer Island, kindly 

 loaned by J. H. Fleming and from which he permitted the United 

 States National Museum to retain a pair in exchange, almost entirely 

 lacks the sulphur wash from the breast and belly; the scapulars, 

 wings, and tail are distinctly brown, not black; the reds are duller, 

 and they average slightly larger, but this supposed character might 

 disappear upon the measurement of a larger series. The color dif- 

 ferences are very striking upon comparison, and I have named the 

 southern form Myzomela chloroptera jugaJ^ 



An adult male from Saleyer Island, in the collection of J. H. 

 Fleming, has the reds much paler than the southern form, but 

 whether this difference would hold I am not prepared to say until 

 a larger series has been examined. 



An immature male (No. 249975) taken July 9, resembles the adult 

 female but is acquiring red-tipped feathers on the top of the head, 

 back, and rump, and three or four on the chest; the scapulars and 

 lesser wing coverts are coming in sooty black. This shows that the 

 adult plumage is assumed the first year after a postjuvenal molt. 



A selected series of males of the northern form compares with 

 the other series as follows: 



Ten males, north Celebes. 

 Four males, south Celebes 

 One male, Saleyer Island. 



Culmen. 



mm. 



14. 8 



15. 5 

 16 



184. ORODYTES CELEBENSIS CELEBENSIS (Meyer and Wiglesworth). 



One male and one female, Goenoeng Lehio, January 18 and 20, 

 1917 ; one male, Lindoe Trail, February 25, 1917 ; six males and two 

 females, Rano Rano, December 9-31, 1917. 



The above series is from the mountains of north-central Celebes 

 and I have been able to compare them with topotypes of Orodytes 



'sProc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 34, 1921, p. 56. 



