ART. IG. BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 



The measurements of the series are as follows : 



93 



178. HERMOTIMIA GRAYI (Wallace). 



A good series of both sexes and immature from : Kapas Bay, July 

 22, 1914; Kwandang, October 7, 1914; Toli Toli, December 2-19, 

 1914; Kampa, February 14, 1915; Tandjong Penjoe, February 18-26, 

 1915; Likoepang, January 11-18, 1916; Ayermadidi, April 2-4, 

 1916; Kasimbar, December 13, 1916. 



An apparently adult male (No. 248808) taken at Tandjong Pen- 

 joe, February 18, 1915, has the chest and upper back pyrite yellow 

 with a reddish wash and is unique in the series of males, though a 

 male (No. 248798) from Toli Toli, December 3, shows a slight yel- 

 lowish tinge to the maroon of the chest. A perfectly normal male 

 was taken on the same day as the unique Penjoe specimen. 



The above series of males shows apparently two phases in the color 

 of the crown ; in one it is a beautiful shining golden green, while in 

 the other it is more coppery. This is due to wear, I believe, as the 

 phase without the golden sheen or little of it, shows more wear when 

 examined under a lens. That it is not geographic is certain, as both 

 phases w^ere taken at the same locality. 



179. HERMOTIMIA PORPHYROLAEMA PORPHYROLAEMA (Wallace). 



Five adult males, one immature male, and three females, Gimpoe, 

 August 2-September 3, 1917 ; two adult males and one female, Pine- 

 dapa, February 2-4, 1918. 



No specimens of this species are available for comparison from 

 the south, but the above birds do not fit the description of Hermoti- 

 mia porphyrolaema scapuluta Meyer and Wigglesworth, which Doc- 

 tor Sharpe finding preoccupied has renamed [Hennotimia porphy- 

 rolamia] meyeri^^'^ so there is nothing left to do but refer them to 

 the typical form for the present. 



«" Hand-list Birds, vol. 5, 1909, p. 4.3. 



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