Birds of Celebes: Carapopliagidae. 



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aud upper tail-coverts; wings brown-black, the primaries nan-owly, the secondaries 

 and coverts broadly bordered with white, of an impure fulvous tint on the inner 

 feathers; lores brownish black; supraloral stripe continued over the eye fulvous 

 white; chin, throat, and under parts, under tail-, and wing-coverts and 

 remiges where they rest upon the body white, with obscure cinereous bars on 

 the sides and metacariml edge; distal part of remiges below dusky brown; tail 

 below blackish; the two outer feathers broadly, the next narrowly, tipped with white, 

 and the outermost pair externally edged with the same colour {Q, Kalao, Dec. 95: 

 Everett — 1513S). 

 Young. Like the female, but the feathers of the head, neck, and back tipped with white 

 and subterminally crossed with a bar of darker brown; the wing-coverts, secondaries 

 and primaries edged with fulvous, not white; the under parts washed with white, 

 most strongly on the jugulum, a few blackish spots on the breast, bill dark, under 

 mandible basally yellowish: iris brown {(f, Kalibangkere, S. Celebes, 7. VH. 78 — 

 5371). 



Measurements. 



Wing 



Bill from 

 nostr. 



a. (Nr. 13617) cf ad. Batubassi, ISTov. 1871 (Meyer) . . 90 



b. (Nr. 13615) cf ad. Macassar, Oct. 1871 (Meyer) . . 95 76 21 11 



c. (Nr. 13616) [rj] ad. Macassar, Jan. 1873 (Meyer) . . 92 



d. (Sarasin Coll.) rf ad. Macassar, 9. "VU. 95 ... . 92 \ 73 21 10 



e. (Sarasin CoU.) 2 Macassar, 13. XL 95 92 75 21.5 11 



f. (Sarasin Coll.) 2 imm. Macassar, 4. IX. 95 . . . 90 



g. (C 15138) ad. Kalao Id., XLI. 95 (Everett) .... 87 73 21 11 

 h. (C 15137) g ad. Kalao Id., XU. 95 (Everett) ... 94 80 — 11 

 i. (C 15209) 2 imm. Lombok, V. 96 (Everett) ... 90 , 70 21 II 

 J. (C 1528) 9 imm. Lombok, V. 96 (Everett) .... 92 ! - — 11 

 k. (Nr. 13618) ad. Makisar or Kisser (Riedel) . . . . 100 

 I. (Nr. 6422) ad. Timor, Kupang (Riedel) 98 



Distribution. Timor (S. Miiller a 1, Wallace c 1, d 3, etc.); Kisser (Riedel (jf i); Letti 

 and Ombai (Leyd. Mus. d 8); Sumba (ten Kate d 7, Doherty d 9); Sumbawa 

 (Guillemard rf 4, Doherty d 9); Lombok (Wallace rf 5, Vorderman 6, etc.); 

 Bali (Wallace d 3, Doherty d 9); Djampea and Kalao (Everett d 9); Saleyer 

 (Weber d 8, Everett d 9]; Celebes — South Peninsula (Meyer e 2, f 1, Platen, 

 P. &F. Sarasin 7, Everett d 9, Doherty d 10); ? North Peninsula (v. Biiltzings- 

 lowen el); ? Borneo {d 1, 3, 5). 



This species was first discovered in Celebes by Meyer, Avho obtained the 

 three specimens above mentioned at Macassar and Batubassi. These were de- 

 scribed later as var. celebensis (f 1), but after comparison with a typical specimen 

 from Timor, which was not at hand then, we find them identical in all respects, 

 except in size (see measurements above), and do not insist upon maintaining it 

 as a subspecies, though it may possible be found advisable to re-establish it 

 later on, when the species is better known. Prof. W. Blasius (/" 2) has 

 called attention to the probable identity of a specimen in the Liibeck Museum 

 (e 1) with this form of tmorensis indicated to have come from North Celebes, 

 but this locality requires confirmation. 



