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Mils. 1895, XVn, 88; (4) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 12; (5j 

 Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (6) id., ib. 1897, 155, 159, 161. 



Trichostoma finschi (I) Wald., Ibis 1876, 378, pi. XI, fig. 1. 



b. Turdinus finschi (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. Vn, 1883, 543; (2) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's 

 Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, HI, 276. 



Figure and descriptions. Walden 7, Sharpe b 1. 



Adult male. Head above and mantle olive-brown, gradually changing into ferruginous- 

 brown on the upper tail-coverts and external edges of the rectrices; wings dull olive- 

 brown, the coverts edged with the colour of the back, the remiges externally rather 

 paler; under surface rufous-buff, browner on the sides, gi'eyer on the sides of the 

 breast, more cinnamon on the under tail- and wing-coverts, clearing into whitish on 

 the cliin and thi-oat and middle of abdomen; lores whitish, more fulvous round the 

 eye; ear-coverts grey-brown with pale shaft-lines; "iris pale red-brown; feet pale 

 piirphsh; maxdla blackish, mandible bluish horn-colour" — Doherty ((J", Macassar, 

 3. VI. 95: Sarasin Coll.). 



Female. Like the male in coloration, but smaller ($, Macassar, 29. VHI. 95: P.&F. S.). 

 Measurements (4 exami^les: Macassar: P.& F. S.). Wing [2 o^cf) 75, 77 mm, (2 Q $) 68, 71 ; 



tail (^ 55, $ 50, 52; tarsus c. 27, bill from nostril 10.5—11. 

 Distribution. South Celebes — Macassar (Wallace /, bl, a 1, Conrad a 2, I, etc.), low 



country near Bonthain (Doherty a 6); West Celebes — ■ Palos Bay (a 6). 



This species may be distinguished from T. celehensis of North Celebes by 

 the tawny-buff tint of the sides of the body, the fulvous colour- round the eye 

 and the different tint of the upper surface. Until the visits of the Sarasins, 

 Everett and Doherty, only four specimens of it had been recorded, but 

 Mr. Doherty sent more examples of it than of any other bird from Macassar. 

 Dr. Sharpe places the bird between two West African species, T. gularis 

 (Sharpe) and T. rufescens (Rchw.), from both of which it differs by its tawny 

 under-parts, but Mr. Biittikofer points out some small structural differences, 

 which lead him to place the African species in a different genus, Illadopsis. 

 The curious correspondence of the members of several genera of Timeliidae in 

 East India and Africa south of the Sahara has been already commented upon 

 in the foregoing article. 



GENUS MALACOPTERON Eyt. 



Differs from Trichostoma chiefly by its long wing and small tarsus and foot. 

 As Biittikofer shows, the tail, Avhich is rounded, is three times the length of 

 the tarsus. The feathers of the forehead grow as far as the nostril, which is 

 screened with bristles; the rictal bristles are large, reaching to within ',4 of 

 the tip of the bill. If not a Flycatcher, it is a very near approach thereto. 



Range: Malay Peninsula to Java, Borneo, Palawan, Celebes. 



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