39. scissiRosTRUir. 193 



slaty grey ; lower abdomen, flanks, rent, and under tail-coverfcs 

 golden yellow ; thighs slaty groy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 dull ashy, edged with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 4"-4, 

 tail 4-4, tarsus 1"1. 

 Hah. Celebes. 



a, h. Ad. sk, Celebes. Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Menado. Tweeddale Coll. 

 e,f. S ad. sk. Tondano. Wallace Coll. 

 7.' Ad. sk. Tondauo. Wallace Coll. 

 >«. Ad. sk. Tondano ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



39. SCISSIROSTRUM. 



Tjpe. 

 Scissirostrum, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 93 S. dubiuin. 



Range. Confined to Celebes. 



1. Scissirostrum dubium. 



Dubious Shrike, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. p. 72 (1801). 

 Lanius dubius. Lath. Ltid. Orii. Suppl. ii. p. xviii (1801). 

 Scissirostrum pagei, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 93 ; id. Mag. de Zool. 



1845, pi. 59; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 328 (184<3) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 119 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 423 (1850); Wallace, 



Ibis, 18G0, p. 141; Finsch, Xen-Guinea, p. 174 (I860); Wall. 



Malay Arch. i. p. 430 (18(39) 

 Scissirostrum dubium. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 27, no. 6395 (1870) ; 



Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 81 (1874) ; BriU/gem. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, v. p. 79, Taf. iii. figs. 11, 12 (1870) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 146 ; id. Abbild. Vogel-Sk. pi. xxiv. (1882); Blasius, Zeitsch.ges. 



Orn. iii. p. 126 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts blackish, each feather with a wax-like longitudinal tip of 

 crimson ; lesser wing-coverts dark slaty grey ; median and greater 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, with a 

 greenish gloss on the margins ; tail-feathers black, externally 

 glossed with greenish black; head all round and under surface of 

 the body slaty grey ; feathers at base of forehead, lores and eyelid 

 slaty blackish ; flanks with a few crimson-tipped feathers ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts slaty blackish ; under wing-coverts and axU- 

 laries dark slaty grey ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3-75, tail 3"3, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 8 inches, cul- 

 men 0-75, wing 3'55, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"8. 



Hah. Celebes; Togian Islands. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Menado (A. R. Wallace^). Gould Coll. 



e. Ad.;/. Imm. ; g. J Tondano. Wallace Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



k. 5 ad. ek. Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



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