THE IBIS. 



FOUETH SERIES. 



No. X. APRIL 1879. 



X. — Field-notes on the Birds of Celebes, By A. B. Meyer^ 

 M.D., C.M.Z.S., Director of the Royal Zoological Mu- 

 seum, Dresden. Part II. 



[Continued from p. 70.] 



Broderipus celebensis, Walden, 



Native Malay name/^Burong-guning," i. e. "Yellow bird." 

 Alfurous name in the Minahassa, " Kikeliawoi." 



Very common. Minahassa, December till July; Limbotto, 

 July ; Togian Islands, August. 



Iris red ; feet bluish grey ; claws black ; bill rosy. Even 

 the bones of this bij'd are yellow. 



Geocichla erythronota, Sclater. 



Five miles from Menado, on the way to Lotta, in February 

 and March ; at Tumumpat, near Menado, in March ; in the 

 churchyard of the Europeans at Menado from April to July. 



Lives on the ground, very shy, only to be shot from far. 



Iris of a dark slaty colour ; feet nearly white. 



Feeds on beetles, which I found in the stomach. 



I wonder that Lord Tweeddale gave me credit for having got 

 this bird, in his "Appendix " and not in his "List," seeing that 



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