ART. 16. BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 49 



The specimens from Dampelas are very much faded, the blue has 

 silmost entirely disappeared from the scapulars, leaving them drab; 

 •cme of the females has the tail much worn. 



A female in the United States National Museum (No. 234102) 

 from Dodepo Island, Gulf of Gorontalo, November 16, has the top of 

 the head more extensively gray than any in the series collected by 

 Raven; the culmen is longer and the base of the bill seems to have 

 been of a different color in life. These differences may be individual. 

 The bill is malformed, the lower mandible being considerably longer 

 than the upper. 



Interior of the bill and mouth salmon colored ; exterior of bill black ; feet 

 «almou coloi'ed, except the toes and lower part of tarsus above, which are 

 washed with blackish. — H. C. R. 



99. ALCEDO ATTHIS HISPIDOIDES Lesson. 



Three males from: Tandjong Tango, August 28, 1914; Kwandang, 

 .September 15, 1914; Koeala Prang, June 14, 1916. 



A female in the United States National Museum, No. 234,101, 

 from Amboina, wlien compared with the three Celebes males has a 

 shorter and heavier bill; the lower mandible ochraceous for about 

 half the length from the base ; and the patch of specialized feathers 

 on the sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts, white. In all three 

 of the Celebes males the lower mandible is black to the base and the 

 patch of specialized feathers on the sides of the neck, bufl'y. Whether 

 the above differences are sexual or not I am not prepared to state. 



The race is so very different from Alcedo atthis that I have grave 

 <loubts whether it should be only recognized as a form of that species, 

 but follow Hartert ^^ and Stresemann.*^ 



100. CEYCOPSIS FALLAX (Schlegel). 



One male, Paleleh River, August 10, 1914; one male, Kwandang, 

 October 9. 1914; one, male, Laboea Sore, November 15, 1916. 



The male from Laboea Sore (No. 250218) has a shorter bill than 

 the other two and it is black, horn color for a short distance at 

 the extreme tip; the back is much darker; the blue spotting on the 

 top of the head is heavier and extends further back onto the nape. 

 It apparently is not fully adult. 



101. ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA RUFA (Wallace). 



One female, Likoepang, March 9, 1916, and one female, Laboea 

 Sore, December 1, 1916. 



8» Vogol paliiark, Fauna, Heft 7, 1912, p. 882. 

 «> Nov. Zool., vol. 20, 1013, p. 315. 



