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Birds of Celebes: Campophagidae. 



(6) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 130; (7) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 137, 147; (8) Meyer, 

 Isis, Dresden 1884, 30; (9) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 259, 554; (10) W. Bias., 

 Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 112; (XI) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel. 1892, I, 41, pi. CLXVn; 

 (12) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Eeise in Ost-Ind. 1893, IH, 278; (13) M. & Wg., 

 Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 9; (14) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 15; (15) Hart, 

 Nov. Zool. 1896, 155; (16) id., ib. 1897, 162. 



"Maspas kokie", or "Maspas biabia", Minabassa near Manado and islands off the coast, 

 Nat. Coll. 



"Merapati ise ise", Tonkean, E. Cel., Nat. Coll. 



"Pakampi batu", Tjamba Distr., S. Celebes, Platen. 



"Manua bembeh", Peling; "Tejana popoloso", Banggai, Nat. Coll. 



Figures and descriptions. Walden /; Meyer XI (skeleton); Sliarpe ^'); W. Blasius 10. 



Adult male. Above glossy greenish black; lower back, rump and upj^er tail-coverts 

 white, sUghtly shaded with grey on the lower back; middle wing-coverts, most 

 of outer webs of the greater coverts and a broad external edge to the 

 secondaries white, a broad superciliary streak from nostril to side of 

 occiput, malar region, lower part of ear-coverts, and entire under surface 

 white; lores and upper part of ear-coverts black like the upper surface; wings 

 below greyish black, where they rest upon the sides of the body white; tail 

 black, the lateral feathers tipped with white, about 18 mm broad in the outermost 

 pail-, 10 mm in the next, 5 nmi in the thii'd (Manado, (^, March, 1871: Meyer — 

 C693; Manado tua, marked cf, 6. IV. 93: Nat. Coll. — 12138). Iris brown; bill 

 and feet black (Guillem. 9). 



Adult female. Differs fi-om the male in having the hind neck, mantle, upper back, and 

 scapulars smoke-grey instead of black; the greater wing-coverts much more narrowly 

 edged with white, the middle coverts marked with black; the white lower back, rumj) 

 and upper tail-coverts washed vnth grey; the middle tail-feathers brownish grey, the 

 ends black; the breast usually obsciu-ely barred; metacarpal edge marked with black; 

 other parts as in the male (Manado, Q, March, 1871 — C 692, and others). 



Immature. Like the adult female, but the feathers of the smoke-grey parts of the upper 

 surface broadly tipped with hght cinnamon, the feathers of the crown dusky tipjied 

 with cinnamon; the wliite under parts marked on the breast with dusky shaft-streaks 

 (near Manado, Aug.— Sept. 1893: Nat. Coll. — C 10884, 10883). 



Measurements (12 adults — male and female''')). Wing 9.) — 97 mm; tail 75 ca. ; tarsus 18 — 20; 

 bill from nostril '.'.5 — 11 ca. 



Skeleton. 



Length of fibula .... 

 Length of tarso-metatarsus 

 Length of digitus HE . . 

 Length of sternum . . . 

 Greatest breadth of sternum 

 Height of crista sterni . . 

 Length of coracoid . . . 

 Length of scapula . . . 

 Length of cla^^cula . . . 

 Length of pelvis .... 



8.3 mm 



18.0 » 



16.0 » 



20.5 » 



16.5 • 



7.0 • 



IS.O ' 



20.0 . 

 16.0 



21.5 . 



ij In Dr. Sharpe's descriptions — instead of "adult male", read '-immature male" or '-adult 

 female"! 



2) Two or three in the female dress are probably immature males, the grey of the upper plumage being 

 marked with black. 



