124 OX NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM CELEBES [1872. 



and sides of the head and neck covered with creamy-white feathers tipped with black. Bill 

 horn-brown. Logs, feet, and nails yellow. 



Example No. 2 has the under surface pure white, each feather with a broad black band or 

 spot, which is again edged with white. Under tail- and shoulder-coverts and inner webs of the 

 quills for half their basal length pure white. Head and cheeks ashy-grey. Nuchal feathers 

 white at base, with greyish-brown terminations. Back, wings, and upper tail-coverts ferruginous 

 brown, the ferruginous tint predominating. Upper surface of the quills b^o^vn, with ferruginous 

 borders. Under surface paler brown, tinged with light ferruginous. Middle pair of rectrices 

 ferruginous brown, with one broad subterminal black band. Faint traces of pure white on each 

 side of the shaft at intenals. The outer rectrices are broadly banded with black and white. In 

 some the white is iiTegularly clouded with feiTuginous brown. All are narrowly tipped with 

 white. Bill horn-brown ; lower mandible at base greenish yeUow. Legs, feet, and nails yellow. 



In both examples the third and fourth quills are equal and longest ; the second is equal to 

 the fifth. The outer pair of rectrices are much sliorter than the others. The bill is exceedingly 

 high and stout. The total absence of markings on the quills and under shoulder-coverts, and 

 the extremely stout bill, distinguish this Cuckoo from all known forms. Although a much 

 smaller bird than H. sjmrverioides (Gould), its bill is fully twice as deep. 



A. it. N. H. On some supposed new Species of Birds from Celebes and the Togian Islands. By Arthur, 



oAf' .X x*ol 1 IC 



p. 3y»! Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.R.S. [From the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 



ser. 4, vol. ix.. May 1872.] 



The following five species of birds were obtained by Dr. Meyer, three on the mainland of 

 Celebes and two in the small islands of the Togian or Schildpad group in the Gulf of Tomini or 

 Gorontalo. That two distinct species should inhabit these small land-locked islands and yet not 

 be known to occur on the neighbouring mainland of Celebes is another of those instances of the 

 isolation of species and their restriction to small areas so numerous in the Indian archipelago. 

 One of the two species belong to a genus, Criiiif/er, not as yet observed in Celebes although 

 occurring in the Sula Islands. The other is a Lor/culiis, combining some of the characters of the 

 Sula species, L. sclateri, with those of the Celcbean, L. st/r/mafus. It is, however, not 

 improbable that these Togian species, although not found in North Celebes (Gorontalo, 



