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Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 



H * 204. ANDROPHILUS CASTANEUS (Butt.). 



Mountain Babbler. 

 Plate XXXIV. 



a. Turdinus castaneus (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 261; (2) M. & Wg., Abli. 



Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 12. 



b. Drymocataphus castaneus (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1895, XYII, 92. 



e. Androphilus everetti (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 69, 151; (2) id., ib. 1897, 155. 



Descriptions. Biittikof er a 1\ Hartert c 1. 



Adult male. Above, including the I'emiges and rectrices externally, chestnut-olive, a little 

 duller and of a sKghtly squamous appearance on head and neck; face and breast 

 mouse-grey, whiter on the abdomen, the ear-coverts with whitish shafts; chin and 

 throat whitish; supraloral and superciliary stripe whitish, posteriorly more 

 mouse-gi'ey; lores dusky; sides of body and thighs chestnut-olive as above, but 

 lighter; under tail-coverts a little paler; tail below olive-brownish; remiges 

 below dusky; under wing-coverts ohve-brown: "Lis chocolate-brown; bill black, 

 base of mandible pale brown; legs and claws oUve-brown" — Everett c 1 [rf, 

 Tomohon, N. Cel., 28. IV. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 



Remark. This specimen has been compared with the type of the species by Mr. Butti- 

 kofer, who writes that the latter fully agrees with it, except that it has more white 

 on the under surface, but the grey colour is making its appearance on the white 

 spaces, and it seems to be a younger bird. 



Female. Like the male. "Unless some of the specimens are wrongly sexed, there is no 

 constant difference in size between the sexes" (Hartert). 



Measurements. 



Bill from 

 nostril 



a. (C 13897) cf , Tomohon, N. Cel., 28. IV. 94 (P. & F. S.) 62 56 I 27 9 



b. (Sarasin Coll. in spirit) ad., Tomohon, 8. IV. 94 . . 58 — 25.5 9 



c. (Sarasin Coll. in spirit) Tomohon, 8. IV 94 . . . . 60 55 25 8.5 



d. (Sarasin Coll.) cf ad., Loka, S. Cel., 18. X. 95 . . 61 62 25 i 9 



e. (C 14884) c5'ad.,Bonthain Peak, c. 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (Ev.) 61 — 26 ^ 9 

 /: (C 14885) $ ad., Bonthain Peak, c. 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (E v.) 61 , — 25 9 



Distribution. North Celebes — Minahassa (v. Rosenberg a 1); Tomohon (P.&F. Sarasin a 2); 

 South Celebes — Bonthain Mts. (Everett c 1, P.& P. Sarasin, Doherty c 2). 



A single specimen of this species was obtained by v. Rosenberg in the 

 Minahassa on 9* September 1874, and the Drs. P.&F. Sarasin found it again 

 in April, 1894, near Tomohon at about 2500 feet. The genus seems to vary 

 much in the size of individuals, the type described by Bvittikofer being smaller 

 in the wing (56 mm), tail (52), and tarsus (22). Trichostoma celebensis varies much 

 in the same way. Mr. Hartert received among others from the Peak of 

 Bonthain "a perfect giant, with a wing of 64 mm in length". 



Mr. Hartert, not having for comparison specimens from the North, which 

 were wrongly referred by Mr. Blittikofer and ovu'selves to the genera Turdinus 

 and Diymocataphus, named the' Southern birds as a new species, Androphilus 

 everetti. After, for the second time, making the most careful comparison of the 



