24. CHAEITORNIS. 153 



margins, these being scarcely visible on the greater coverts ; bas- 

 tard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, slightly 

 washed with glossy blue externally ; crown and nape, lores, sides 

 of face, cheeks, and ear-coverts glossy purplish black, the feathers 

 somewhat scaly in appearance ; upper throat also purplish black ; 

 lower throat, fore neck, and chest white, extending in a broad 

 collar over the sides of the neck and round the hind neck ; remain- 

 der of under surface of body glossy blue-black, with a slight gloss of 

 steel-green ; under wing-coverts black, with narrow purplish-blue 

 edgings ; quills blackish brown below. Total length 20 inches, 

 culmenl-15, wing 5-85, tail 11"5, tarsus 1*35. 

 Hah. Northern Celebes and Togian Islands. 



2. Streptocitta albicollis. 



Caledonian Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 116 (1801) ; Gray, 



Cat. B. Troj). Id. Pacific Ocean, p. 25 (1859). 

 Corvus caledoniciis, Laf/i. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xxv (1801). 

 Pitta albicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 128 (1818). 

 Pica albicollis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 314 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 11, no. 0179 (1870). 

 Streptocitta albicollis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382 (1850) ; Wall. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 113 ; B/asiits, Zeitsc/ir.ye.f. Orn. ii. p. 296, Taf. xiii. fig. 1 (1885) ; 



id op. cit. iii. pp. 118, 119 (1886). 

 Streptocitta caledouica, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 75 (1872) ; 



Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 133, 1880, p. 249. 



Adult female. Similar to S. torquata, but differing in the yellow 

 tip to the bill : " bill black, the tip yellow ; feet black ; iris brown " 

 (Platen). Total length 19 inches, culmen 1, wing 5-7, tail 12, 

 tarsus 1'35. 



Hah. South Celebes. 



a. Ad. sk. Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



24. CHARITORNIS. 



Type. 

 Charitornis, Sc/il. N. T. D. iii. p. 1, pi. 8 (1805) C. albertinaj 



Banrje. Confined to the Sula Islands in the Moluccas. 



1. Charitornis albertinse. 



Charitornis albertinse, 8chl. N. T. D. iii. p. 1, pi. 8 (1865). 

 Eulabes albertinffi, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 19, no. 6277 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above glossy greenish black, with a very 

 faint purple gloss ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 



