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rufous, unbarred, becoming ochreous brown on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, which are irregularly barred or 

 freckled. 



A young male {Wall.), Tondano, is like the female, but 

 faintly barred on the breast, and greyish, faintly metallic, on 

 the nape and mantle. 



A yet older male {Wall.), Macassar, has the nape more 

 metallic, and a few feathers on the breast albescent. A still 

 older bird, male, Minahassa (Dresden Museum), is taking on 

 the claret-brown feathers above, as well as the metallic vinous 

 tinge on the breast, which is becoming distinctly barred. 

 It still retains the chestnut head. 



A male a stage further on has nearly acquired its dark 

 adult plumage above, the head being in process of change 

 from rufous to grey, the lower surface as in the adult male. 



There is, according to Professor Blasius, another variety 

 of plumage to which this species is liable, in which the head 

 is reddish brown in the adult male. I have not had the 

 opportunity of seeing such a specimen, but one or two of the 

 young birds described above have pale rufous heads. In any 

 case Professor Blasius is wrong in assuming that this variety 

 is the M. macassariensis, Wall., which, as I shall presently 

 show, is quite a different bird. Wing 6*1 to 6*3 inches, tail 

 7-6 to 8-4, tarsus 0-9, bill 0'9. 



Birds from the Sula Islands seem a trifle smaller, wing 6 

 inches in a male, but otherwise identical. 



Hah. Celebes, Sula Islands, Togian Islands. 



16. Macropygia sanghirensis. 



Macropygia turlur (pt.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbse, 

 p. Ill (Sanghir and Siao). 



Macropygia sanghirensis, Salvad. Atti Ace. Torino, xiii. 

 p. 1185 (1877-78); Bias. Ornis, 1888, p. 619, pi. iii. 



Adult male. A representative of M. albicapilla, but larger 

 and easily distinguished by its darker colour, almost purplish 

 brown above, the head cinereous, paling to buff on the fore- 

 head; a vinous tinge on the crown blending into plumbeous 

 on the nape ; bright metallic amethyst on the mantle, with 



