128 Dr. A. B. Meyer's Field-notes 



HiRUNDO GUTTURALIS, Scopoli. 



Menado, March; Togiaii Islands, August; Tello (South 

 Celebes), January. 



Iris brown ; feet, claws, and bill black. 



In the stomach beetles. 



Very active, but often rests on single branches of trees in 

 the flooded rice-fields of Tello. 



HiRUNDo jAVANicA, Sparrui. 

 Tello, near Makassar, in January. 



Cyornis rufigula, Wall. 

 Near Menado in ^March. 



Hypothymis puella (Wall.). 



Alfurous name in the Minahassa, " Rui " (its call). 



Not rare near Menado from January till July ; Limbotto, 

 July ; Togian Islands, August. 



Feeds on insects (butterflies, spiders, &c.) . 



The male is of a more brilHant blue than the female, the 

 latter more greyish. The nestling is grey, belly and breast 

 white, head grey. 



Iris blue ; it has large eyes ; feet blue, like the belly ; claws 

 black ; bill blue, like the head ; even the bones are blue. 



The nest is placed on twigs of trees, and made of moss &c. 

 I got one, which is still in my collection (Dresden Museum), in 

 March 1871, near Menado. It contained two young birds, 

 one of which escaped. I pat the nest back in its place, and 

 observed that three old birds always remained near. They 

 cried tschirret, tschirret, in their fright ; nay, they tried to 

 attack me when I took the young one and put it down on 

 another spot ; they followed and immediately brought food 

 if it chirped. One of the three old birds I procured with 

 the blowpipe ; it was a female ; but I cannot say whether the 

 other two w^ere both males, or a male and a female. All three 

 had remained with the young one to feed it. This latter was 

 still quite helpless. 



The old birds call three times when they answer each other 

 in play, and utter rui, rui, when they call each other. 



