on the Birds of Celebes. 61 



MoNACHALCYON CYANOCEPHALUS (Forst.). 



This bird lias long been regarded as the young of the pro- 

 ceeding species. When I first got specimens of this smaller 

 blue-headed and striped Kingfisher in the mountains of the 

 Minahassa, near Kokat (2J00 feet high), in June 1871, I 

 immediately pointed out in a letter to Lord Tweeddale that 

 I did not believe it to be the young of M.princeps ; but Lord 

 Tweeddale did not adopt my view, and followed Professor 

 Schlegel, Mr. Sharpe, and others, I cannot agree on this 

 point with the opinion generally adopted^ and must look at M. 

 cyanocephalus as a distinct species, Recently Count Salvador! 

 also appears to incline to this opinion ; and Dr. Briiggemann"^ 

 decidedly does so. I never got the species near Menado, but 

 later on procured it also from the Gorontalo district. 



Entomobia pileata (Bodd.). 



H. van Musschenbroek informs me that one of his sons 

 obtained this species in the neighbourhood of Menado : the 

 skin is in tlie Leyden Museum. 



Sauropatis chloris (Bodd.). 



Native Malay name, " Radja-udan-biru," i. e. " Blue King 

 of the Crabs.^' Alfurous name in the Minahassa, " Kikis- 

 katanaan.^^ 



A very common and noisy bird, found everywhere on the 

 sea-shore and on river-banks in North, Middle, and South 

 Celebes. Male more brilliantly coloured than female; the 

 latter more greenish and darker on the head. I often found 

 Crustacea in the stomach. 



* In many respects I do not agree with Dr. Briiggemann's views, pro- 

 mulgated in his paper on the birds of Celebes. This author appears to me 

 often to judge rather rashly of the opinions of experienced ornithologists, 

 and to indulge in too decided opinions . I also regret that he has worked 

 with a collection of which the Celebean origin of many specimens is 

 very doubtful, and that thus the ornis of Celebes has been again hampered 

 with a series of species which decidedly do not belong to it, and this after 

 similar contaminations had been swept away by Lord Tweeddale's valu- 

 able paper. But I shall have occasion to recur in detail to all this when 

 I hereafter treat on the Celebean fauna in a monograph which I propose 

 to draw up. 



