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chin, throat and jugulum russet-brown or drab; remaining under-parts impure 

 yellow, greyer towards the under tail-coverts, and more or less deeply tinged with 

 olive according to locality (Java Nr. 6364, Celebes Nr. 8575, Great Sangi Nr. 8562). 



Female. With no metallic parts in the plumage: above greenish olive, head greyer; below 

 pale grey, more or less strongly washed with oclu-e-yellow on breast, sides, abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts (Macassar Nr. 8569, and others). 



Young. Like the female, but washed above and below more strongly with yellow, not grey 

 (Lunbotto Nr. 8573, Java Nr. 6366). 



4. 



1. Anthreptes malaccensis celebensis (Shelley). 



(I. Nectarinia lepida pt. {1) Miill. & Schl., Verb. Natuurk. Coram. Aves 1846, 63; {2} 



S. Miill., Eeize Ind. Archip. 1858. pt. 11, 13. 

 h. Anthreptes lepida {1} Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 343 (Cel., Sula). 



c. Anthreptes malaccensis {1) Wald., Ibis 1870, 47; {2} id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 70; {H} 



Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 72; {4] Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 375. 



d. Antothreptus malaccensis pt. (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, Vii, 661 (nee Siao). 



e. Anthothreptus malaccensis (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XII, 320 (Celebes). 



f. Anthreptes celebensis [1] Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. XLIV, 321, pi. 103, fig. 2 (o<), 3 ($) 



(1878;; {2] Meyer, Ibis 1879, 131, 146; {3] W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 114, 137; (4) 

 Salvad., Iljis 1884, 325; {5) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Om. 1885, 284; {6} id., Ornis 



1888, "^87; {") Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Eeise in Ost-Ind. 1893, m, 278. 



g. Anthothreptes malaccensis pt. {!) Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 1884, 123; {2) Tristr., Oat. CoU. 



B. 1889, 215. 

 h. Anthothreptes celebensis {1} Guillem., P.Z.S. 1885, 554; {2) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes, 



1889, 92. 



W'. Anthreptes malaccensis celebensis (1) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel. 1894, 11, t. CCVill; 



('i'"«; M.&Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 11; {2) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 11; 



{3} iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 17; {4) Hart., Nov. Zool 1896, 153; {5) id., ib. 1897, 161. 

 "Burong tjui" (cliuwi), Malay {ior a\\ Nectar iniidae), Meyer/" 2, Guillem. ^ 2, Hickson /?, 2. 

 "Burong tjui kalapa", Malay, Minahassa, Nat. Coll. 

 "Tomonsi niu"', East Celebes; "Tomonsi cosoni", PeUng, iid. 

 "Tomonsi babal", Banggai, iid. 



For further references see Shelley f I. 



Figure and descriptions. Shelley f 1; Meyer A'"''/ (skeleton); Salvadori d 1; W. Blasius 



f5, f6. 

 Diagnosis. Male adult. Breast strongly washed with olive; lower sides, flanks and under 



tail-coverts washed with olive-grey; size not large (Macassar, J" ad., Jan. 1873: Meyer 



— Nr. 8571, type of subspecies). 



Iris red; feet greyish green, soles yellow, claws grey; bill black. 

 Female. Below pale olive-grey, hardly washed with yellow; chin and throat whitish; head 



above and neck strongly tinged with grey (Kema, Q, 8570; Macassar, $, 8569; 



Togian, $, 8574). 

 Young. Like the adult female, but the bill shorter and not black, the head above and neck 



(like the mantle) yellowish olive not washed with grey; chin and thi-oat olivaceous 



whitish, the under-parts strongly washed with ochre-yellow (Limbotto, $ O juv., July, 



Nr. 8572 and 8573). 



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