ART. 16. BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 45 



Family TYTONIDAE. 



BARN OWLS. 

 88. TYTO ALBA ROSENBERGI (Schlegel). 



One female, Manembo Nembo, June 28, 1916; one male, Parigi, 

 September 20, 1916. 



The above female has the facial disk, back, and lower parts darker 

 than in the male, especially the face and lower parts; the tarsus is 

 more heavily feathered and deeper in color, the lower parts more 

 heavily spotted with dark brown, the spots having more a tendency 

 to form bars. It may be that more than one form of the species 

 occurs in Celebes. 



A single male of the Javan race {Tyto alba javanica) before me 

 is much lighter in every way than my Celebesian male, but whether 

 this would hold in a larger series it is impossible for the present to 

 say. 



The Celebesian race is so very different in color and size from true 

 Tyto alba that it is very doubtful indeed if the former should be 

 made a race of the latter, but I prefer to make no change for the 

 present. 



Family LORIIDAE. 



LORIES. 

 89. TRICHOGLOSSUS ORNATUS (Linnaeus). 



A good series from the following localities: Kwala Besar, July 

 29-31, 1914; Soemalata, September 4-8, 1914; Kwandang, September 

 16-October 7, 1914; Paleleh, November 13, 1914; Toli Toli, Decem- 

 ber 18, 1914; Tandjong Penjoe, February 17-20, 1915; Likoepang, 

 January 17-March 12, 1916; Manembo Nembo, June 22-24, 1916; 

 Toemaratas, July 5-9, 1916; Parigi, September 20-October 5, 1916; 

 Toboli, October 20-25, 1916; Rano Lindoe, March 3-23, 1917; Gim- 

 poe, August 3-28, 1917; Pinedapa, February 1-6, 1918. 



Common about cleai'ings and villages and very noisj- ; food mostly soft fruit, 

 buds, and sweet blossoms. — H. C. R. 



90. EUTELIPSITTA MEYERI MEYERI (Walden). 



Five males and four females, Toemaratas, July 5-8, 1916; three 

 males and one female, Laboea Sore, December 18, 1916; one male 

 Lindoe Trail, February 25, 1917. 



This series is very uniform and the only variation is such as would 

 be accounted for by age. The yellow subterminal bar on the feathers 

 of the mantle is much reduced in some specimens, probably birds not 

 fully adult. 



