4^g Birds of Celebes: Dicaeidae. 



Adult female. Above dark olive-slaty, tinged \vitli brighter bro^vn on the head; rump flame- 

 scarlet like the male, tail a little duller; below whitish, sides of head and neck, 

 sides, flanks, and a mesial stripe on the body below oUve-grey, blending, where it 

 meets, with the darker hue of the upper surface [Q, Indrulaman, S. Cel., Everett, 

 14914). 



"Iris brown; bill black, base of mandible paler; feet bluish grey ; claws blackish" (E v. 5). 



Young. Above hke the adult female, but without scarlet on the rump — here olivaceous; 

 below oKve-grey, a greenish tinge on the flanks, only the mesial region yellowish white; 

 gape and basal half of lower mandible yellowish (Q juv., Loka, S. Cel., P. & F. S.). 



Measurements (6 adult males). Wing 46 — 53 mm; tail ca. 23; tarsus ca. 12; bill from nostril 

 ca 6— 8 ; (2 females) wing 44,45 mm. 



Variation. Males from North and South Celebes do not seem to chffer in size, though vary- 

 ing individually. The scarlet cap is hghter in some specimens than in others, but 

 this diiference also is not bound to the geographical locality. 



Distribution. Celebes: North Peninsula — Rurukan (Platen 1, 3, P. & F. Sarasin 4); South 

 Peninsula — Peak of Bonthain and the neighbouring hill -country (Everett 5, 

 P. &F. Sarasin, Doherty 6). 



This pretty Flower-pecker will probably prove to be an inhabitant of all 

 the mountain districts of Celebes, since it is now known from the hills of the 

 extreme north and south at heights of about 2000 — 6000 feet 



We are indebted to Mr. Nehrkorn for the loan of the type of this species, 

 which prior to 1894 was the only specimen on record'). It was found by 

 Dr. Platen in company with D. celehicum among the orange and citron plantations 

 of the mountain- village of Rurukan. 



The bird seems to belong to a well-marked species, intermediate between 

 the cruentatum-^xovi^ of India and South China to the Great Sunda Islands, from 

 which it may be distinguished by its black, not scarlet, back and scarlet on 

 throat, and the rubrocoronatum-^xoxx^ of New Guinea, from which it is separable 

 by its violet-black upper and white under tail-coverts. The small size of the 

 scarlet spot on the throat is likely to give the impression that the bird is imma- 

 ture, but this spot never seems to attain to a larger size. 



-f * 176. DICAEUM HOSEI Sharp e. 

 Hose's Flower-pecker. 



Dicaeum hosei Sharpe, Bull. Br. Orn. Club Nr. XLV, p. XLVm and Ibis 1897, p. 449. 



Adult. Back in continuation with the head, rump and upper tail-coverts red, a shade 

 deeper than in D. tiehrkorni, the black bases of the feathers on the back showing 

 thi'ough; lores, superciliary region, face, chin, upper throat, sides of neck 

 and of breast sooty black, becoming greyer and greener on the flanks; lower 

 throat, mesial part of breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts buff; wings 

 and tail above glossy blue-black; under wing-coverts pure white {cf, type, 

 Mt. Masarang, N. Celebes: 4000 feet, October 1895: Hose). 



1) After this had gone to the press we learn from Prof. W, Blasius' "Neuer Beitrag z. K. Vogelf. Cel." 

 (rec. Sept. SO"- 1897) that Platen obtained five specimens, 3<5d, 2eQ. 



