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Birds of Celebes: Campophagidae. 



paler tint; front of suborbital region and loral region, including tbe feathers 

 concealing the nostril, chin and malar region next the bill, black; under 

 surface as the upper, but gradually passing into white on the abdomen, flauis and 

 under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts white, slaty grey at edge of wing; quills 

 below dusky grey, the inner edges greyish white where they rest on the sides of the 

 body (Manado tua, [.^TJ, 15. IV. 93: Nat. Colh — C 12159). Bill and feet black 

 (Meyer 9, Platen 12, Guillem. 13); iris: Minahassa — (?) brownish black (Meyer); 

 (?) brown (Guillem.); South Celebes — milk-white (Platen); yellowish white (Everett 

 21); W. Celebes — yellowish white (Doherty 22). 



Eemale. The female is without the black lores, chin and malar mark, and has the white on 



the rump and abdomen [more extensively diffused (Guillem. 13, and five specimens 



in the Dresden Museum, sex not ascertained). 

 Young. In the first plumage the general colour is, apparently, grey, white on rumj^ and 



belly, each feather crossed with a subterminal bar of brown bordered with whitish. 

 Changing plumage. Three specimens in changing plumage have such feathers interspersed 



with the uniform slate-grey ones of maturity; quills, esjDCcially the inner ones, rather 



broadly edged with white or pale brown, the outermost tail-feathers tipped with white 



more broadly than in adult (N. Celebes — C 271, 3488, and another). 

 Measurements (14 adults — 9 cf , 5 $). Wing 152 — IHO mm; tail 120— 130 ca.; tarsus 22 ca.; 



bill from nostril 17 — 19. 

 Sexes. The sexes do not appear to differ in size, and differences are not apparent in spe- 

 cimens fromthe islands off the coast of the Minahassa. 

 Skeleton. 



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Breeding habits. Unrecorded. 



Distribution. Celebes, the islands off the coast, and ? Great Sangi: — Mnahassa (Wall. 8, 

 Meyer 9, Guillem. 13, etc.); TaUssi Id. (Guillem. 13, Hickson); BaiJia, Lembeh, 

 Mantehage and Manado tua (Nat. Coll. in Dresd. Mus.); Togian Is. (Meyer 9); 

 Tonkean, E. Celebes (Nat. Coll.); West Celebes (Doherty 22); S. Peninsula: 

 Macassar (Wallace S, Weber 17, and others), Tjamba Distr. (Platen 12i, Maros 

 (Weber 17), foot-hills of Bonthain (Everett & Doherty 21, 22); ? Great Sangi 

 Island (Meyer 7, 11, 14). 



A single young example is kno^vn from Great Sangi. As Dr. Sharp e remarked 

 on comparing this with a young bird from Celebes, nothing can be said as to the 

 distinctness of the Sangi bird as a species. It is also recorded by Dr. Lenz as 

 having been received from the Sangi Islands tlirough von Biiltzingslowen, who 

 had brought together a collection with the help of native hunters. 



Remark. There is no appreciable difference between birds of South and North Celebes. 



