JS.RT. 16. BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 41 



less numerous and narrower. The Koelawi bird has the outer tail- 

 feather worn off at the tip and the web worn down to the shaft for 

 quite a distance. The two specimens measure as follows (the 

 Koelawi bird first) : Wing, 370-375 ; tail, 260-265 ; culmen from cere, 

 24-25. 



vCrops contained larvae of bees. — H. C. R. 



81. LOPHASTUR CELEBENSIS (Schlegel). 



One adult male, Gimpoe, August 22, 1917. 



It measures : Wing, 300 ; tail, 205 ; culmen from cere, 23. 



English ornithologists generally persist in using Sharpe's name for 

 this hawk, though Meyer and Wiglesworth^^ had gone into the mat- 

 ter and shown that Schlegel's name had priority. As my data is 

 somewhat different from theirs, though the results are the same, I 

 will give them as follows : Sharpe ^* described Baza erythrothorax 

 from Celebes. The paper in which it was described was received 

 June 13, but it was published in part 3 of the Proceedings, which 

 did not appear until April, 1874. In the meanwhile Schegel '^^ 

 liad described it as Baza celebensis. This livraison is dated July, 

 1873, and the copy in the United States National Museum was cer- 

 tainly received within the year. Even if it should have come out 

 much later in the year than the ostensible date it would have clear 

 priority over Sharpe's name and should be employed. 



82. CERCHNEIS MOLUCCENSIS OCCIDENTALIS (Meyer and Wiglesworth). 



One female, Kapas Bay, November 18, 1914; two females, Tand- 

 jong Penjoe, February 19 and 23, 1915; one male, Temboan, July 

 20, 1916; one female, Winatoe, January 10, 1917; one female, 

 Koelawi, January 31, 1917 ; one male, Rano Lindoe, March 30, 1917 ; 

 one female, Dampelas, June 14, 1917, one male, Gimpoe, August 20, 

 1917. 



The above series shows some little variation. The female is more 

 heavily streaked below, the bars on the back are heavier, and the tail 

 is narrowly barred with black, the male having the latter plain gray 

 with a subterminal black bar and the top of the head with a grayish 

 tinge. A specimen (No. 250766), marked as a female, and the meas- 

 urement of the wing and barring of the back would indicate that it 

 is such, from Koelawi, January 31, has the middle pair of tail feath- 

 ers as in the male and only a few very faint indications of bars on 

 the inner web of the other tail feathers. This bird is approached 

 by another female from Tandjong Penjoe, February 23, and it would 



" Birds of Celebes, vol. 1, 1898, p. 75. 



^* Proc. Zool. See. 1873, p. 62u. 



'EMus. Pays-Bas, No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, p. 135. 



