Birds of Celebes:. Dioaeidae. 44 J 



GENUS DICAEUM Cuv. 



Nine primaries; bill as long as the cranium, tapering and pointed, broad 

 at the base; tarsus stout, longer than the toes, the hallux about as long as the 

 middle toe. Sexes dissimilar, the males more or less glossy and resplendent, 

 the females plain, the young much like the females. Nest suspended from a 

 twig, pear-shaped, the entrance at the side; eggs white. 



The . genus belongs to the Indo-Australian area. 



Two genera of Dicaeidae are found in the Celebesian area. Dicaeum itself 

 ranges from India and South China to Australia, where only one species occurs, 

 while about seven are found in British India. There are seven in Celebes and 

 the neighbouring islands, belonging to 2 or 3 well marked divisions of the 

 genus. Four are local forms closely related to one another and to a species 

 inhabiting Kini Balu Mountain, Borneo, a second form (D. nehrkorni) is apparently 

 intermediate between a group ranging from the Great Sunda Islands to India 

 and S. China and a group found in New Guinea; a third form (D. splendidum) 

 has its nearest affinities in the Timor group. It is doubtful whether the species 

 have anything to say on the former disposition of land and water about Celebes. 



Acmonorhynchus, a genus occurring interruptedly in Ceylon, one of the Phi- 

 lippines, Great Sangi, Celebes and Flores, displays some indications of descent 

 from Pachyglossa of the Himalayas, a form which seems to have emigrated and 

 reached the Celebes area and Flores at some distant period, Ceylon more 

 recently. 



f * 170. DICAEUM CELEBICUM S.Miill. 

 Celebes Red-throated Flower-pecker. 

 Plate XXV. 



Dicaeum celebicum (1) S. Miill, Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839—44, 162; (2) Gray, Gen. B. 

 1847, I, 100; (3) Bp., Oonsp. I, 1850, 403; (4) Reichb., Hb. Scansoriae 1853, 240; 

 (5) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 342, pt. (Celebes); (6) Finscb, Neu Guinea 1865, 163 

 pt. (Celebes); (7) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 115, Nr. 1422; (8) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, 

 Vm, 72 pt. (Celebes); (9) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 661; (10) Briiggem., 

 Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, 74; (11) Rosenb., Malay. Ai-cliip. 1878, 272; (12) Meyer, 

 Ibis 1879, 132, 146; (13) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 138; (14) Sbarpe, P. Z. S. 1883, 

 578; (15) id., Cat. B. X, 1885, 23; (15'''') Guillem., P.Z.S. 1885, 554; (16) W. Bias., 

 Ztscbi'. gas. Orn. 1885, 291; (17) Sbarpe, Ibis 1889, 428; (18) Heine & Rcbw., 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 61; (19) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise Ost-Ind. 

 1893, in, 279; (20) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 10; (21) iid., ib. 

 1896, Nr. 1, p. 5; (22) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (23) id., ib. 1897, 155. 



n. Dicaeum leclancheri (1) Lafr., Rev. Zool. 1845, 94; 1846, 42; (2) Hartl., ib. 1846, 4, 

 47, 111. 



"Burung tjui dada mera", Malay name, Minabassa, Nat. Coll. 



Descriptions. S. Miiller 1; Reichenbach 4; Sbarpe 15; W. Blasius 16. 



Jlejer .^ Wiglesworlh, Birds of Celebes (Nov. r,th 1897), 56 



