31. PHL0GO3NAS. 591 



with the edges of the feathers coppery amethystine ; rest of the upper 

 parts olive-brown, inclining to russet on the wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 and upper surface of the tail ; cheeks and throat grey, the latter 

 paler ; crop-region grey, with a wash of yellowish olive ; breast pale 

 yellow, changing into whitish on the middle of the abdomen ; sides 

 and flanks brown ; under tail-coverts white, with the edges olive- 

 brown ; primaries greyish brown ; secondaries olive-brown with a 

 tinge of russet ; under wing-coverts dark olive-brown, with the tips 

 fulvous, the longer ones white, with brown bases ; axillars brown, 

 with light ochreous tips : the four or five central pairs of tail- 

 feathers olive-brown with a tinge of russet, the outer three or two 

 pairs tipped with grey*: "bill dusky purplish, apex dark horn; 

 orbits pale slat} - ; evelids dull purple ; legs carmine-red ; toes slaty 

 purple; claws pale horny" (Wallace). Total length about 13-5 

 inches, wing 7, tail 4-5, bill 0-82, tarsus 1*8. 



An immature bird in the Leyden Museum, with the edges of the 

 greater upper wing-coverts rufous, has the purple band across the 

 nape, like the adult bird, but narrower. 



Hah. N. Celebes. 



a. 3 ad. sk. Menado, N. Celebes. Wallace Coll, 



7. Phlogcenas bimaculata. 



I'hlegcenas tristigmata. Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 393 (part., Makassar) ; 



id. J.f. O. 1866, p. 284 ; id. Malay Arehip. i. p. 413 (part.. South 



Celebes) (1869) ; Gould (nee Temm.) B. of As. vi. pi. 59 (pt. xxv., 



1873). 

 Phlogcenas bimaculata, Salvad. Bull. Br. Orn. Club, no. iii. p. x 



(1892). 



Similar to Ph. tristigma, of which it is the southern repre- 

 sentative, and from which it differs in being somewhat duller, less 

 yellow on the breast, and less coppery amethyst on the hind neck 

 and mantle, and principally in having two purple-violet spots on 

 the sides of the upper nape, so that the nape along the middle is 

 entirely bronze-green ; the tail with only the four central feathers 

 brown, the next pair grey with a brown subapical band, and the 

 four outer pairs grey with a black subapical band. Size scarcely 

 smaller than that of Ph. tristigma. 



Bab. Makassar, S. Celebes. 



a. Ad. sk. Makassar, S. Celebes Gould Coll. (Specimen figured by 

 {Wallace). Gould (1. c.). Type of species.) 



* The tail is imperfect in the specimen described, so that it cannot be made 

 out clearly whether two or three of the outer pairs of tail-leathers are tipped 

 with grey. 



