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CiTTURA CYANOTis {Temm.). 



Alfurous name in the Minahassa, " Kikis-talun/' i. e. 

 " Kingfisher of the Forest/'' 



I got this species only in the Minahassa^ but at any time 

 from December till July. It lives, like Monachalcyon prin- 

 ceps, only in the forest, not on river-sides ; and it is not at all 

 a rare bird, according to my experience. It likes to sit dream- 

 ing alone on branches of trees. Male and female are easily 

 to be distinguished, viz. from the colour of the wing-coverts 

 and the sides of the head, which is blue in the male, black 

 or bluish black in the female ; the male has no white super- 

 ciliary spots. Even the young ones, which were alive in my 

 possession, show this difference. 



In the stomach I found insects, crabs, worms, &c. 



Iris rosy red ; bill and feet dark red ; claws blackish brown. 

 Its cry is, five or six times one after another, kebekek. 



C. sanghirensis , Sharpe, is quite another and different 

 species, restricted to the Sangi Islands. Dr. Lenz has re- 

 cently (J. f. Orn. 1877, p. 368) again confounded the two 

 species, and reported also Celebes as the habitat of C. san- 

 ghirensis, misled by a collection of doubtful origin. 



(Compare my notes in Rowley^s ' Ornithological Miscel- 

 lany,^ iii. p. 136 et seq., 1878, which treat fully of the sexual 

 differences of both species.) 



Ceycopsis fallax (Schlegel) . 



I got this species near Menado, near Gorontalo, and at the 

 waterfall of Maros, in South Celebes ; but I did not procure 

 many specimens, perhaps for the reason that it lives in the 

 forest and is a small species. Near Tabukan, on Great Sangi 

 Islands, it appears to be plentiful. In May a living specimen 

 was in my possession at Menado. The colours of this little 

 species are very delicate. It is the loveliest Kingfisher of 

 Celebes. 



Iris dark brownish ; bill brilliant red, only the middle of 

 the upper mandible blackish ; feet and claws brilliant red. 



This and other species teach us that we are far from know- 

 ing already all the Celebean birds, because this and others 



