AST. 16. 



BIRDS FROM XORTH CELEBES RILEY. 



81 



Eighteen males, Celebes^ 

 Seven males, Philippines. 

 Eleven females, Celebes . 

 Five females, Philippines 



Two females, Java 



One unsexed, Australia.. 



Culmen. 



mm. 

 9. 5 

 9. 6 

 9.4 

 9.3 

 9.7 

 10 



160. M£GALURUS CELEBENSIS RUey.« 



A male and female, Doda, Besoa, October 23, 1917. 

 The original description is as follows : 



Similar to Megalurus amboinensis but larger, with the back more heavily 

 streaked with blackish, the cinnamon edges of the tertials broader, the nape 

 obscurely streaked with dusky, the blackish streaks on the wing coverts 

 broader, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts streaked with brownish 

 black, and the buffy chest band more pronounced. Wing, 67 ; tail, 113.5 ; 

 culmen, 12 mm. 



The female is smaller than the male with the streaks on the head extending 

 onto the forehead and the black streaking on the back narrower. A male speci- 

 men of Megalurus amboinensis, with which the above species has been com- 

 pared, has no streaks on the nape whatever, the top of the head is a deeper 

 sayal brown, and the lower back and rump are without streaks, only the 

 upper tail coverts having narrow dark shaft streaks. It measures : Wing, 

 61 ; culmen, 12 mm. 



These are apparently the first birds of this genus taken in Celebes 

 and Mr. Kaven informs me that while not rare at the type locality 

 they skulked in the reeds and he found them very difficult to collect. 



In the original description I only mentioned Besoa, because that 

 was the only locality given on the label. Besoa turns out to be a 

 district and the exact locality is as above. 



161. ACANTHOPNEUSTE BOREALIS BOREALIS (H. Blasius). 



One male, Ayermadidi, April 4, 1916. 



162. CRYPTOLOPHA NESOPHILA Riley. « 



A good series from the following localities : Goenoeng Lehio, Jan- 

 uary 14r-19, 1917; Lindoe Trail, February 25, 1917; Rano Rano, 

 December 10-29, 1917. 



The original description is as follows : 



Above citrine, deepening on top of head and nape into medal bronze ; super- 

 ciliary stl-ipe barium yellow; loral streak dusky; post ocular streak color of 

 the head ; below, including cheeks and ear coverts, citron yellow, streaked with 



«Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 32, 1919, p. 94. 



*« Idem, vol. 31, 1918, p. 159 (Goenoeng Lehio, Celebes). 



