Birds of Celebes: Laniidae. 4()[ 



4 * 149. PACHYCEPHALA BONTHAINA M.&Wg. 



Southern Fringilline Thick-head. 

 Plate XIX. 



Pachyeephala bonthaina (1) M. &Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 2, p. 10; (2) Hart., 

 Nov. Zool. 1896. 149, 155; (3) id., ib. 1897, 158. 



Descriptions. M. & 'Wg. 1; Hartert 2. 



Adult male. Head greenish yellow-olive, brighter on the ear-coverts and superciliary region; 

 lores duskier; neck, mantle, upper back, wings, tail, and body below brownish 

 slate-gi-ey, darker above, paler below, washed with olive on the mngs and breast, 

 more strongly on the chin and thi-oat; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 sides, and flanks yellow-olive hke the head, brighter on the flanks, washed with 

 brownish ochraceous on the under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and re-' 

 miges where they rest upon the body pale cinnamon: "iris scarlet; bill black; 

 feet blacldsh" — Doherty 2 {cf, tyjDe, Wawo Karaeng Mt., S. Cel., above 2000 m., 

 29. X. 95: Sarasin CoU.). 



Female. Like the male, but the chin and thi-oat ohve-slaty, streaked with pale buff; some 

 buff edgings to the feathers of the forehead: "iris cherry-red" (Q, co-type, Lompo- 

 batang Mt., c. 2400 m, 6. IX. 95: Sarasin Coll.). 



Immature male. The whole upper side washed with oUve, the whole under side striped with 

 pale brownish buff, the head and neck olive-brown (Hartert 2). 



Measurements. Wing 82 — 86 mm; tail 65 — 68; tai-sus 22 — 23; bill fi'om nostril 8. 



Distribution. Bonthain Mountains, S. Celebes (P. & F. Sarasin 1, Everett 2, Doherty 3], 



This bird is as yet known only from great elevations, GOOO ft. and upwards 

 on the Peak of Bonthain and the adjacent heights. Apart from the next 

 species, P. honensis of the mountains of the Gorontalo Province, N. Celebes — with 

 which it may ultimately prove to be identical, though more probably not so — 

 it seems to have no near allies; its coloration is peculiar and its bill small, 

 though Pachycephaline in structure. Its general appearance is Finch-like. 



^* 150. PACHYCEPHALA BONENSIS M.&Wg. 



Northern Fringilline Thick-head. 

 Plate XVIII. 



Pachyeephala bonensis (1) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 1894, Nr. 4, p. 2; (2) iid., ib. 189o, 

 Nr. 1, p. 11; (3) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 155. 



Young. Above greenish yellow-olive, including the wing-coverts and outer edges of the 

 secondaries, those of the primaries greyer, passuig into browner oHve on mantle, neck 

 and head; tail olive-brown; chin and throat cinnamon, with grey-brown middles to 

 the feathers; breast grey-brown, washed with cinnamon on abdomen, passing into 

 yellow-olive on sides, flanks and crissum, with an ochraceous tinge on the under 

 tail-coverts; under wing-coverts cinnamon, a little paler on remiges where they lie 

 upon the body, the latter elsewhere dusky: legs brown, claws paler; "his bro-mi" 

 (5?, type. Bone Mts. c. 1000 m, 15. Jan. 1894: Sarasin Coll.). 



Measurements. Wing 81 mm; tail 63; tarsus 22; bill from nostril 7, culmen 14. 



Distribution. Bone Mountains, North Celebes (P. & F. Sarasin). 



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