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cimens, and in any case both Herr Stolzmann and Graf von 
Berlepsch are to be congratulated on this rediscovery of a 
species which had so long baffled the cupidity of collectors. 
Yours &c., 
Howarp SAaunpErs. 
Royal Zoological Museum, Dresden, 
March 11, 1880. 
Srrs,—In ‘ The Ibis’ for 1879, at p. 133, in my paper on 
the birds of Celebes, I did not make up my mind conclusively 
as to the specific difference between Streptocitia torquata 
(Temm.), from North Celebes, and Streptocitta caledonica 
(Lath.), from the southern parts of that island, but waited 
for further specimens before doing so. 
I have now three specimens of Séreptocitta from South 
Celebes, all differing in the same manner from North-Cele- 
bean ones, of which I have before me a series of sixteen 
individuals from different parts of the Minahassa and the Gulf 
of Tomini. All three of the southern form have the base of 
the bill of a deep yellow, even orange-colour—in one speci- 
men not only the first third, but half the bill. The greenish 
hue of the plumage of these specimens, when put side by 
side with North-Celebean ones, is not to be passed over, 
especially the lower rump and the uropygimm, which are ob- 
viously greenish instead of bluish. 
I therefore do not hesitate to consider Streptocitta cale- 
donica (ath.) a well-defined species from South Celebes. 
It would be interesting to get specimens of Streptocitta from 
the centre of the island, or from those parts where Strepto- 
citta torquata and S. caledonica meet. I have already men- 
tioned (/.c.) that Dr. Beccari thinks he saw both species 
together near Kandari, in South Celebes; but as they only 
differ in such a slight manner, it would be difficult to decide 
to which form individuals belong without having the birds in 
hand. 
I obtained male and female of Streptocitta caledonica ; the 
specimens were shot at Kalibangkere, in the district of Tjamba 
(South Celebes), in the month of March. The native name 
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