174 ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



Tr. Z. S.viii. McNU, Hodgson. 



^' "^' 102. Mrxi.\ NisoRi.v (Temm.), PI. Col. 500. f. 2, "Java" (8 May, 1830); conf. Blyth, Ibis, 



1870, p. 172 ; Walden, Ibis, 18G9, p. 211, note*. 



Ilab. Macassar (TVaUace) ; Java (mus. nostr.). 



A single Celebean example in Mr. "^^'allace's collection, the only individual I have been able 

 to examine, agrees well with Javan specimens. The upper tail-coverts and edges of the rectrices, 

 however, are olive-green, and not grey as is the case in all my Javan examples. Mr. Blyth (/. c.) 

 observes that the Celebean race has no pale shafts to the feathers of the upper parts ; but in this 

 Macassar individual the pale shafts are very conspicuous. The two principal characters which 

 distinguish the Javan M. nisoria (T.) from the Indian M. punctularia (L.) are the rufous 

 colouring of the breast-markings and the grey colour of the upper tail-coverts and edges of 

 rectrices. In the Indian bird these are golden yellow, and the breast-markings are almost black. 

 Moulmein individuals, again, differ from those of India in having the breast-markings rufous, and 

 from both Javan and Indian iu having the upper tail-coverts and edges of the rectrices yellowish 

 green ; nor are the breast-markings in the Moulmein race as well defined. In the race which 

 inhabits Flores the upper tail-coverts are pale olive-green, as in the Celebean bird. 



M. imnctularia and J/, nisoria, in young plumage, before the breast-markings appear 

 and the upper coverts assume the waxy lustre found in the adult, are extremely difficult to 

 distintruish. The Indian bird, however, is considerably larger, and has the bill much stouter. 

 From L. ruhro-nirjer and its allies, when in first plumage, they are likewise difficult to separate. 

 The only sure characters are the sinuated commissure and massive form of the bill in 

 M. ruhro-niyra. 



103. Mr>fiA MOLUCCA (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 302 (1766), ex Brisson, Orn. iii. p. 241. 

 no. 10 ; Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 147. 



Ilab. Macassax {Wallace) ; ¥\oycs {miis. iwsfr.). 



A Celebean example of an adult male collected by Mr. ^^'allacc perfectly agrees with 

 Brisson's description of Count Beutinck's specimen obtained in the Moluccas, on which Linnaeus 

 bestowed the above specific title. 



104. McMA BRUNXEICEPS, n. sp. (PI. IX. fig. 1, in on'f/.) Conf. Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 171. 

 Hah. Macassar {Wallace). 



Head, chin, throat, and breast brown ; abdominal stripe, vent, and under tail-coverts black ; 

 remainder of plumage dark chestnut. From a Macassar example of a male collected by 

 Mr. "Wallace. In another example from the same locality, marked a female, the head and nape 

 are of a lighter and less decided shade of brown, "^^'ing 2 inches. Were it not that Mr. Blyth 

 Tr.Z.S.viii. had already remarked the imbrowned colouring of the head and neck in examples from Celebes, 

 P' ~^' contained in the Leyden Museum, I should have felt less confidence in considering these Macassar 

 indinduals distinct from J/, ruhroniijra, Hodgs. 



♦ \_AnUa, p. 53, note. — Ed.] 



