1872,] ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES, 167 



One example, in winter plumage. Olive-green above. Upper part of breast sulphur-yellow ; 

 rest of under surface pure white, some of the ventral and under tail-coverts dashed with sulphur- 

 yellow. Supercilium conspicuous, broad, and pure white. Agrees perfectly with examples from 

 continental India. 



Motacilla flavescens, Stephens, Gen. Zool. Avcs, x. p. 559, is enumerated in the ' Hand-list ' 

 by Mr, G. R. Gray as a distinct species, with the habitats of the Moluccas, Celebes, Timor, and 

 Java assigned. Stephens gave this title to Buffon's " Bergcronnette de I'ile de Timor," Hist. Nat, 

 V. p. 275, Buffon's bird belongs to that phase of plumage of B. virvJis (Gm.) in which the 

 superciliary stripe is yellow, the upper plumage ash-coloured, and the under yellow. 



HIRUNDINID.E, 



HiKUNDO, Linnaeus. 



76, HiEUNDO GUTTURALis, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 96. no. 115, ex Sonn. (1786), 



L Hirondelle d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 118, pi. 78. 

 Hirimdo panayana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1018, ex Sonn. (1788), 



Hob. Menado [nms. nostr.) ; Indian region, 



Celebean examples agree with specimens from India, Japan, China, Java, Malacca, and 

 Morty Island. In one the crown is ashy brown, the forehead albescent. The black pectoral 

 band is present, and the chin and throat are dirty rufous ; on the outer tail-feathers the white 

 mark is in the form of a diagonal oval drop. An example of an adult bird has the head steel- 

 blue ; forehead, chin, and throat deep rufous, as in the European //. rustica, the rufous breast 

 being bounded by the usual black pectoral band. Wing 4^ inches. 



Whether this and the other races of Chimney-Swallows which inhabit the Malay archipelago 

 and Eastern Asia are or are not of the same species as the European bird, they undoubtedly 

 belong to Sonnerat's Hirondelle d'Anticjue. 



77. HiEUNDO JAVANicA, Sparrman, Mus. Carls, pi. 100, "Java" (1789). Tr.Z.S.viii, 



p. 66. 

 Hob. Indo-Malayan region. 



Mr. Wallace informs me that he found this species common at Macassar, " building its mud 



nests in verandahs in the town." 



MUSCICAPID^, 



Cyoenis, Blyth. 

 ■ 78, Cyobxis eufigula, Wallace, P, Z. S, 1865, p. 476, " Menado." (PL VII. fig. 3, in orhj.) 

 Hah. Menado ( Wallace). 



Myialestes, Eeichenbach. 

 79. Myialestes helianthea (Wallace), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 476, " Menado." (PI. VII, fig, 1, 

 in oricj.) 



Huh. Menado ( Wallace). 



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