Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 497 



Descriptions. Walden a 1; Sliai'i^e a 6. 



Adult male. Above, including ear-coverts and cheeks rich oKve-yellow, hghter on lower 

 back, rump and upper tail-coverts, which are washed with orange; a slight tinge of 

 orange on mantle and back; the median and greater wmg-coverts narrowly edged 

 externally with brighter yellow than the back; quills dark brown, externally bright 

 olive-yellow tinged with orange; tail-feathers dark ohve-yellow; the centre ones 

 washed with orange, all the rectrices tipped with bright yellow, narrowly on the 

 centre ones, this colour extending also along the inner web of the feathers for nearly 

 the entu-e length, excepting on the centre ones; lores yellow; throat and under-sur- 

 face rich golden yellow inchning to orange; under tail-coverts rich orange-yellow; 

 fore neck and sides of breast washed with oHve; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries golden yellow; quills below dusky brown, yeUow along the edge of the inner 

 web (from Sharpe 6). 



Measurements. "Wing 124 mm; tail 118; bill from nostril 16; tarsus 19 (Walden a 1). 



Distribution. Togian (Meyer a 1, a 4, a 9). 



This species is known by a single specimen which was found by Meyer 

 in August 1871 on the highest point of the chief island of the Togian Group 

 in the Gulf of Toraini. Its nearest affinities are with I. longirostris Wall, of 

 Sula and I. platenae W. Bias, of Great Sangi, while /. affinis Hombr. & Jacq. 

 from Ceram and Amboina differs chiefly in having the tail more broadly tipped 

 with yellow than in the three forms of the Celebesian area. /. aurea differs from 

 /. longirostris, according to Walden, by being somewhat smaller, by having a 

 much shorter bill, and by the bright golden colouring of its plumage. The 

 orange tint of its under surface likewise serves to distinguish it from /. platenae, 

 which is bright yellow below. 



The presence of lole, or as it has there been termed Criniger, in the island-groups 

 round Celebes and its apparent absence on the mainland has been commented 

 upon with some surjmse by Mr. Wallace (Geogr. Distr. 1876, I, 431) and Prof. 

 W. Blasius (Ornis 1888, 596), yet we have very little doubt but that it will ulti- 

 mately be found in Celebes. The small Province of the Minahassa and the neigh- 

 bourhood of Gorontalo and of Macassar alone have as yet been investigated with 

 some care, but even here a number of new birds have been discovered in the 

 last few years, and a much larger number doubtless remains to be found in the 

 centre of the island, in the East and South-east Peninsulas, as also on the west 

 coast and in the high mountain regions, judging from the results obtained there 

 by the most recent collectors. 



-f * 201. lOLE LONGIROSTRIS (Wall.). 



Sula Bulbul. 



a. Criniger longirostris (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 339; (2) Finsch, J. f. 0. 1867, 6; (3) 



Gray, HL. 1869, I, 274, Nr. 4019; (4) Wald., Ann. and Mag. N. H. 1872, (4) 

 IX, 400; (4^'') Salvad., Om. Pap. n, 1881, 375; (5) Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, 1881, 87; 

 (6) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 596; (7) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Xr. 2. p. 17. 



b. Trichophorus longirostris (1' Finsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 168. 



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