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second the inner webs are marbled with brown, as in the 

 earliest stage of plumage, but are not barred : the new secon- 

 daries and tertials are all a plain unbarred rufous on their 

 inner webs, as are the primaries also ; the central pair of rcc- 

 trices are wanting, the remainder, which have not yet been 

 moulted, are barred like the unmoulted secondaries and ter- 

 tials. This specimen has lost the immature fulvous tips to 

 the wing-coverts, and also wants the nuchal strise which are 

 apparent in F, which, with the above exceptions, it closely 

 resembles. 



H, Togian Isles, Celebes. This specimen, as regards the 

 shaft-marks, resembles F, with the exception of those on the 

 rufous mantle being rather less strongly marked, and those 

 on the breast being less numerous ; it appears to be fully 

 adult, but the inner webs of the secondaries and tertials are 

 transversely barred with brownish black ^. 



I, from Morty Island. An adult specimen entirely desti- 

 tute of dark shaft-marks on the white portions of the plu- 

 mage, and with those on the rufous mantle not very con- 

 spicuous, and in many of the feathers of a dark-rufous colour 

 rather than black ; this bird shows no dark transverse bars, 

 except a few very imperfect traces on some of the primaries 

 of one wing only. 



J, from Gilolo. An adult specimen, imperfectly marked 

 with dark transverse bars on the inner webs of all the quill- 

 feathers of the wangs and tail, except the central rectrices, 

 the shaft-marks rather strongly marked on the rufous mantle, 

 but entirely absent from all the white portions of the plumage. 



K, from Batchiau. Apparently an old bird, resembling J 

 in all respects, except that the shaft-marks on the rufous 

 mantle are less strongly marked, and that there are no traces 

 of cross bars on the quill-feathers of the wings or tail, except 

 a single spot which remains on the inner web of one of the 

 lateral rectrices. 



L, from North Ceram. This specimen entirely resembles 

 K, except that the tail is Avholly immaculate. 



* The Celebean race was supposed to be distinct by the late Dr. F. 

 Briiggemaim, who proposed for it the subspecific name of " (wibiguus" 



