500 



Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 



Female 

 Young. 



and under tail-coverts; supraloral region yellowisL, the ear-coverts with yellow 

 shafts; remiges and tail helow olive-bro^ni; under wing-coverts and edge of 

 wing yellower: "iris grey (two shades of bro\\ai, separated by a black line — 

 Doherty a 6); bill yellow, above black; legs brown-yellow, soles yellow" ((^, Northern 

 foot-liills of the Peak of Bonthain, c. 1050 m, 30. X. 95: Sarasin Coll.). 



Like the male. 



The yellow of the under parts duller and more ochi-aceous, the head and mantle 

 oUve- brownish without any yellow wash {Q juv., N. foot-hills of Mt. Bonthain, 

 31.x. 95: P.&F. S.]. 



Measurements. 



BUI from 

 nostril 



a. (Sarasin Coll.) cf, Bonthain Mts. c. 1050 m, 30. X. 95 135 134 46 17 



ft. (Sarasin CoU.) gad., Bonthain Mts. 1550 m, 30. X. 95 132 127 45 17 



c. (Sarasin Coll.) g juv., Bonthain Mts. 1050 m, 31. X. 95 129 127 45 16.5 



d. (0 14880) cf, Bonth. Peak, 6000—9000 ft. Oct. 95 (Ev.) 136 130 47 17 



Distribution. South Celebes — Bonthain Mts. (Everett a 5, P. & F. Sarasin, Doherty a 6); 

 South Celebes or Saleyer Island (Teijsmann a 1). 



The Drs. Sarasin supply the following notes on the habits of this bird: 

 "Lives in small families; is not at all shy; has a lond piercing cry 'zike', and also 

 a deep Blackbird-like cry; clings Woodpecker-like on tree-stems, as Malia grata 

 recondita; feeds on small organisms in rotten wood". 



In describing the type of this remarkable species Schlegel only says, that 

 "a single skin of this bird was contained in a large collection of birds made, 

 in 1877, during an expedition to Macassar and the neighbouring isle of Saleyer, 

 under the leading of the well-known botanical traveller, Mr. Teijsmann". This 

 is all that is known about the place where the type came from; whether it 

 was killed in Saleyer or on the Southern Peninsula of Celebes may long remain 

 in uncertainty. 



-h 2. Malia grata recondita M.&Wg. 



b. Malia recondita (1) M. & Wg., Abb. u. Ber. Mus. Dresd. 1894/95, Nr. 4, p. 1; (2) iid., ib. 



Nr. 8, p. 12. 

 Diagnosis. The yellow on the abdomen pure lemon-yellow, a little paler than that of the 



throat. 



"Ix'is hght browTi; bill black, under mandible yellow; feet and legs grey-yellow" 



(P.&F. Sarasin). 



Measurements. 



a. (Sarasin Coll.) ad., TTill -forest between the Minahassa 



and Mongondo, c. 1000 m, 30. XI. 93: type ... 139 130 



b. (Sarasin Coll.) $ ad., G.Mantinang, c. 1500m, 28.Vin.94 130 



Distribution. North Celebes, the mountain-forests as above (P.&F. Sarasin). 



Wing 



Tail 



Tarsus 



46 

 43 



BiU from 

 nostril 



17 

 16.5 



The type specimen of this form of Malta was obtained by the cousins 

 Sarasin in the Northern Peninsula of Celebes, during theii- difficult journey 



