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III. Appendia to a List of Birds known to inhabit the Island of Celebes. By Antuur, 
Viscount Watpen, F.R.S., President of the Society. 
Read May 7th, 1872. 
[Puates XI. to XIII.] 
I. Additional Observations on the Birds included in the previous List. 
WHILE the List of Celebean Birds contained in the preceding pages was passing 
through the press the island of Celebes was being visited and its zoology investigated 
by a most indefatigable collector and naturalist, Dr. Bernhard Meyer. With the 
greatest liberality Dr. Meyer has permitted me to examine all the birds collected by him 
in Celebes; and I avail myself of this opportunity to thank him for his courtesy. The 
additional materials thus placed at my disposal have enabled me to add to the list several 
species which had not previously been known to inhabit Celebes, as well as a few more 
which were altogether new to science. The considerable number of examples, repre- 
senting the rarer species, collected by Dr. Meyer, has also rendered it possible and 
desirable to add some supplementary observations. The greater part of the collection 
was made in North Celebes, and consequently on old ground; yet Dr. Meyer has added 
twelve species new to the island, and at least four of which were previously undescribed. 
In the Togian islands a small collection was likewise made, showing that these islands, 
as we might have naturally supposed, possess a generally Celebean ornis; yet, among the 
small number of species thus obtained, two’ were new to science, and have not as yet 
been discovered on the mainland of Celebes. 
TERASPIZA RHODOGASTRA, anted, p. 33. (Plate XI.) 
Three stages of immature plumage, hitherto undescribed, are represented by three 
individuals obtained in North Celebes. 
One, a male (Pl. XI.), has the head dark brown, mixed with rufous. The back, 
wings, and tail are bright rufous. The nuchal and dorsal feathers are centred with 
dark brown. The wing-coverts have each a black subterminal drop. The secondary 
quills are crossed by five distinct black bands. The basal halves of the primaries are 
banded with brown and pale rufous alternating; the terminal halves are light brown, 
obscurely banded with dark brown, rufous replacing the light brown on the outer webs. 
On the under surface of the quills the dark brown bands are better defined and more 
conspicuous. ‘The five middle pairs of rectrices have four broad black bands, besides 
1 Loriculus quadricolor, Walden, Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. ser. 4, vol. ix. p. 398 ; and Criniger aureus, Walden, 
1c. p. 400, 
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