170 STOPAROLA SEPTENTRIONALIS, 
or less scaly appearance, feathers on centre of breast 
broadly edged and tipped with white, abdomen, vent and 
under tail-coverts nearly pure white, especially in the 
specimen which is said to be a female; thighs black, fea- 
thers tipped with white near the heel; edge of wing 
verditer-blue, under wing-coverts pure white with some 
black shaft-streaks, inner web of quills edged with dingy 
white, bill and feet black. Wing 6,8 cm., tail 5, tarsus 
1,6, culmen 1,2. 
Hab. North Celebes. 
This species is represented by two specimens. The first 
is a female, collected by von Rosenberg in 1864 at Tondano, 
N° 511 of his Catalogue, which contains the following 
remarks about this bird: »frequently seen in brushwood 
and low trees, living upon insects. Iris brown, bill black, 
feet blue”, 
The second representative of this species is an unsexed 
specimen , collected by van Duyvenbode, 1866, in the District 
of Menado. 
2. Stoparola meridionalis, n. sp. 
Similar in color to its above described northern repre- 
sentative, but very much larger and stronger. Wing 8 
em., tail 6, tarsus 1,7, culmen 1,5. 
Hab. South Celebes. 
Two specimens (unsexed), coilected by Teysmann in the 
District of Macassar, in 1878. 
Leyden Museum, February 1893. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV, 
