( 28) 



30. Dicrurus leucops "Wall. 



Dicrums Jeiienps Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865. p. 478 (Celebes). 



Seventeen specimens from Tomia (N'os. 4310, 1112, 1113, 1114, 1115), Binongka 

 (Nos. 4272, 4273, 4274, 4275), Wantjee (No. 4454), and Kalidupa (Nos. 4522, 4523, 

 4524. 4525. 4520. 4534). ?\Hiiteeu of these have large white tips to the axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts, thus showing the characters .said to be peculiar to the race 

 from Sangi. Only two or three of tliese fourteen examples show the slighte.st trace 

 of immaturity. Three only (c? Tomia, No. 4315, c? S Binongka, Nos. 4275, 4272) 

 show no sign of white tips to either the axillaries or the under wing-coverts. The 

 iris of the adults of these birds is marked as yellowish white, brownish white, or 

 ochreous white, that of apparently immature ones as bright reddish brown or brownish 

 whit*. Whether the iris is really less white than that of Z*. leiwops, which is said to 

 have a " white " or milk-white iris, is impossible to say. I cannot find any tangible 

 diflerence in size, colour, and markings. 



31. Dicaeum celebicum S. Miill. 



Dicnenm celebicum S. INIiill., Verh., N(dtmrk. C'omm. 1839-44. p. 1C2 (Celebes). 



Two males (Nos. 4133 and 4134) .shot on Buton, November 24th and 25th, 1901, 

 are evidently indistinguishable from 7). celebicum. Kiihn has marked the iris, feet, 

 and bill as " black." 



32. Dicaeum klihni spec. nov. 



Dicaeum : cj supra nigro-chalybaeus, nitore purpureo-cyaneo ; mento albo ; collo 

 antico pectoreque pulcherrime rubris ; pectoris lateribus chalybaeo-nigrescentibus, 

 abdomine medio flavo-albido, stria mediana nigro-chalybaea ; hypochondriis cinereo- 

 olivaceis ; subcaudalibus albidis, vix flavidis ; subalaribus axillaribusque copiosis 

 albis; rostro nigro ; pedibus nigris. Al. 53 — 54, caud. 27J — 29, rostr. 10, metatars. 

 13 — 13i mm. ? feminae D. celebicum dictae simillima, sed minor. 



Hnb. In insulis Tukang-Besi dictis. 



Typus ex Kalidupa, 31. xii. 1901, No. 4587 KiUin leg., in ^lus. Tring. 



<?, Kalidupa, 31. xii. 1901 (No. 4587). 



3 ^c?, Tomia, 21, 22. xii. 1901 (Nos. 4427, 4428, 4429). 



S ? , Binongka, 8, 9. xii. 1901 (Nos. 4232, 4233). 



" Iris dark brown (lilackish brown, black), bill and feet black." 



This very pretty new Dicaeum, which I have named in honour of its discoverer, 

 is more .similar to D. saiirjhirenae Salvad. than to any other species I know. Its 

 upperside is deep steel-blue with a purplish gloss, slightly more purplish than in 

 D. sanghivense. The chin is whitish. The throat, foreneck, and entire breast are 

 scarlet, while in D. sanghirense only the throat and foreneck to the chest are scarlet. 

 Sides of breast, feathers bordering the red breast, and line along the middle of the 

 abdomen black, washed with blue ; middle of the abdomen, with the exception of 

 the median bhick line, yellowish white. Flanks greyish olive, not ashy grey as in 

 D. sanfjhireywe. Under tail-coverts whitish, slightly tinged with yellow, but not so 

 white as in D. sanr/hirense. Under wing-coverts, and the long silky axillaries pure 

 white. Size the same as that of D. sanghirense. The female is like that of 

 D. celebicum, but larger. 



D. klihni differs widely from D. celebicum. It is much larger, the upperside is 



