Birds of Celebes: Dicaeidae. 



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Measurements. 



Wing 



Tail 



Tarsus 



Bill from 

 nostril 



a. (C 14878) cf Djampea (Ev.) 54 27 13 6.5 



b. (C 14877) 2 Djampea (Ev.) 49 27 12.5 6 



Distribution. Djampea and Saleyer (Everett 2); ? Macassar District, South Celebes (Teij s- 



mann 1). 



This species, with D. mackhti M. & S. of Timor and D. salvadorii Meyer of 

 Babbar, forms a section of the genus Dicaeiim in which the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts are scarlet. Mr. Biittikofer remarks that D. mackloti may be con- 

 sidered its nearest ally, from which it differs in its smaller size and in the 

 upper surface having a steel-blue instead of a well pronounced purplish gloss. 

 D. salvadorii is even larger than D. mackloti (cf. Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 38). 

 Mr. Hartert finds the principal differences from D. mackloti to be: "the colour 

 of throat, which is lighter, more vermilion, and extends farther down on the 

 breast, and the greatly diminished dark surroundings of the red throat. They 

 are broad and deep black in D. mackloti, while they are blackish grey and narrow 

 in D. splendidum. The colour of the back varies, and is not constantly different 

 in the two species". 



The type of the species was included in the collections of the botanist 

 Teijsmann, and is indicated as having come from the District of Macassar. 

 The discovery of the bird in Djampea and Saleyer by Everett renders it more 

 probable that Teijsmann's specimen really came from the latter island which 

 was visited by the traveller from Nov. 16. to Dec. 12., 1877 (Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 

 XXXVIII, 111—119). 



-f- * 175. DICAEUM NEHRKORNI W.Blas. 



Scarlet-capped Flower-pecker. 

 Plate XXV. 



Dicaeum nehrkorni (1) W.Blas., "Braunschweigische Anzeigen" (newspaper!), 3. Marz, 1866; 

 (2) Schalow, J. f. O. 1886, 399; (3) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 206; (4) M. & Wg., 

 Abh. Mas. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 10; (5) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (6) id., 

 ib. 1897, 155. 



Description. Hartert 5. 



Adult male. A cap extending from forehead to occiput flame-scarlet, narrowly bordered 

 with black; rump scarlet Hke the crown; sides of head and neck sooty brown, 

 passing into black glossed with violet on the mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 tail and upper tail-coverts; quills dusky; throat and ear-coverts drab; breast 

 smoky brown, varied with whitish, and with about three feathers in it tipped with 

 flame-scarlet; sides and flanks lighter brown than the breast and enclosing a narrow 

 space of white down the middle of the abdomen; under wing- and tail-coverts 

 white; metacarpal edge dark brown, with light tips to the feathers. Wing 46 mm; 

 tail 23; tarsus 12; bill from feathers of forehead 9 (type, cf, Rurukan, Minahassa, 

 6. Vni. 84; Platen in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 976). 

 Iris brown; bill and feet black (Platen). 





