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ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 



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72. 



I therefore provisionally refer them to the Chinese species. They, however, differ from my 

 examples oi A. orientalis (Amoy), A. hrunnescens (Coorg), and. A. arundinaceus (Linn.) (Holland), 

 in having the rectrices conspicuously tipped with dirty white. The proportion of the quills in 

 these examples does not exactly coincide with the proportions existing in the other species 

 alluded to ; nor do the dimensions completely agree. 



A. arundinaceus (Linn.). First long primary nearly as long as second, which is longest ; 

 third shorter than first. 



A. brunnescens (Jerd.). First much shorter than third and fourth, which are longest. In 

 one example the third is longest ; in another the fourth is longest. 



A. orientalis (Bp.). Second longest, third nearly equal to second, first equal to fourth. 



Ex Menado. Second longest, first nearly equal to third, first longer than fourth. 



Ex Cashmere. Second equal to fourth, third longest ; first somewhat shorter than second 

 and fourth, which are nearly equal to third. 



The Cashmere example seems to belong to a distinct species, and differs from a A. hrunnescens 

 of Southern India in its longer and stouter bill, longer tail, and in the upper plumage being 

 darker brown. 



CiSTicoLA, Kaup. 

 74. CiSTicoLA CUKSITANS (Franklin), P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118. 

 Sylvia cisticola, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 228 (1820). 

 Cisticola schoenicola, Bp. Birds of Europe, p. 12 (18o8). 



Ilah. Macassar {Wallace). For complete range cf. Von Heuglin, Orn. N.-O. Afr. pp. 269, 



270. 



Tr. Z. S. vui. A Macassar example of a male Cisticola, kindly lent to me by Mr. Wallace, I am unable to 



P- ^^- distinguish from Assamese and Daccan individuals of C. cursitans. It is labelled C. lineocainlla, 



Gould, with the note, " tail rather more distinctly marked." Wing 1|, tail 1 j^. The range of 



this tiny species is very extensive. 



MOTACILLID.E. 



BuDYTES, Cuvier. 

 75. BuDYTES viRiDis (Gm.), Syst. Xat. ed. 13, i. p. 962 (1788), " Ceylon," ex Brown, pi. 83. 

 Ilah. Menado {mus. nostr.). 



