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VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 

 Table of Dimensions. 



142. jEgialites pekonii (Temm.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 33, " I'Archipel 

 Indien " (March 1865) ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 139. (PI. X. fig. 2.) 



Hab. Borneo, Java, Semao (Schlegel) ; Macassar ( Wallace). 



An example of this species in summer plumage was obtained by Mr. Wallace in 

 Celebes. Mr. Swinhoe, who has also examined this individual, agrees with me in 

 identifying it as above. It belongs to the subsection of which ^. catitianus may be 

 regarded as the type. As it is a rare species, I append the following description : — 



Forehead, from the base of the bill, pure white ; a broad white superciliary stripe, 

 confluent with the white forehead, terminates above the black ear-coverts ; narrow 

 frontal band, lores, ear-coverts, and a broad band crossing the back and reaching to the 

 sides black ; a black jaectoral stripe, continued from the black sides, is narrowed into a 

 thin line on the breast, where it does not quite meet ; this excepted, the entire under 

 surface, cheeks, under wing-coverts, and a broad nuchal collar pure white. Upper 

 plumage pale earthy brown, most of the feathers with albescent edgings, conspicuous 

 on the wing-coverts, some of which are edged with a purer white ; primaries reddish 

 brown ; secondaries paler bro-mi, broadly mai-giued on the inner webs, and tipped with 

 white, more or less cinereous ; all the shafts white ; three outer pairs of rectrices pure 

 white ; the next pair pale brown, much mixed with white (the rest of the rectrices are 

 absent in this example) ; bill jet-black, no trace of any other colour ; legs, in dried 

 skin, pale yellow brown. 'W^ing 3f, bill from forehead f, tarsus 1, tail If. 



The frontal white patch is broad, more so than in European examples of ^. hiaticula. 

 In proportion the black frontal band is narrow, and is not posteriorly edged with white. 



' First primaries wanting. 



