40. MicRosTicrrs. 



491 



axlllaries slaty black ; under surface of the tail brownish. Total 

 length 14 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 7'1, tail Gl, tarsus 1-25; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 1, outer posterior 0'8, inner an- 

 terior 0"75, inner posterior 0-4. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the head, those parts which are red in the male being slaty black 

 covered with very minute whitish specks, these being less marked 

 on the ear-coverts. Total length 13'5 inclies, culmen 1-6, wing G-5, 

 tail 5-6, tarsus 1*22. 



Young, probably fi-male. Resembles the adult female, but has the 

 feathers of the upper portion of the forehead and greater part of the 

 crown tipped with crimson ; uudcrparts sandy brown, the chest 

 having whilish spotting. 



Fledglinr/ male. Differs from the young bird above described in 

 having the red patch on the forehead and crown more marked and 

 richer in colour ; the underparts more of a sandy grey ; the tail- 

 shafts lighter, and the under surface of the tail greyer. 



JJab. North Celebes. 



(', b- d 2 ad. St. 



c. (5 imm. St. 



d, e. cJ imm. J 

 ad. sk. 



f. $ imm. sk. 



(/. (S ad. sk. 



'/(, i. S $ ad. sk. 



A-, /. J ad. ; m. J 



ad. sk. 

 n. Skeleton. 



Celebes. 

 Celebes. 

 Celebes. 



Celebes, Sept. 12, 1803 {Von 



Rosenberg). 

 Menado, N. Celebes. 

 Menado. 



Menado. 



Menado. 



Purchased. 



E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Cnll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Microstictus wallacii. 



Alophonerpes fulvus (nun (iuoij Sf Gaim.), Cub. ^- Heine, Mus. 



Hein. iv. p. 107 (1863) ; Tristr. Cat. Cull. p. 102 (1889). 

 MuUeripicus wallacei, Ttveedd. Ann. ^ May. Nat. Hist. 1877, xx. 



p. 533 ; Wardl.-Rams. Tiveedd. Mem. pp. 5()2, Ap2}. 667 (1881). 

 Alophonerpes wallacei, Bias, in Madar. Zeitsch. fur gesamm. Orn. 



l88o, p. 236, pi. xi. cf ? • 



Adult male. Differs from M. fulvus in having the occiput and 

 nape, as well as the top of the head, red, and this colour covering 

 the whole of the face except a small space between the j^ostcrior 

 part of the malar region and the occiput ; the tail, both above and 

 below, dusky or slaty black, and the shafts nearly black above and 

 dusky below, especially at the tip. Total length 15 inches, culmen 

 1-9, wing 7"05, tail (rOi3, tarsus I'l ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 1-02, outer posterior O'O, inner anterior 0-83, inner 

 posterior 0-42. 



Young male. Differs from the adult male in having less red on 

 the side of the face, the red of the malar stripe clearly separated 

 from this colour on the top of the head, the lores, orbital region, and 



