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roosts in large tiocks, feeds on berries and, as Davison says, insects; in the 

 stomach of a specimen killed by the Drs. Sarasin at Kema were the pits of a 

 fruit called "Bua kaju". Its cry is described as a single metallic note. 



^232. CALORNIS MINOR (Bp.). 

 Timor Glossy Starling. 



a. Lamprotornis minor {1) Bp., Consp. Av. 1850, I, 417; (2) Finsch, Neii-Griiinea 1865, 174. 

 Calornis minor {1} Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 486; {2) Gray, HL. 11, 1870, 26, Nr. 6375; {3) 



Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 80; {4) Sharpe, Ibis 1876, 48; {5} Meyer, Verb. 



z.-b. Ges. AVien 1881, 766; {G] id., Isis, Dresden 1884, 48; (1) Guillem., P. Z. S. 



1885, 509; {8) Sharpe, Cat. B. XTTT, 1890, 142; {9) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 



XTV, 1892, 201; (10) Meyer, t. c. 265; {11} Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Eeise 



Ost-Ind. 1893, HI, 280; (12) Tristr., Ibis 1895, 375; (13) Yorderm., K T. Ned. 



Ind. 1895, LIY, 348; (li) M. &Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 4; (15) 



Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 154, 168, 559, 568, 580, 583, 594. 

 Description. Sharpe S. 

 Adult male. Coppery green on a black ground; neck and jugulum dark auricula-pm-ple; 



quiUs and tail-feathers black with a gi-eeu gloss on the tail and a blue one on wings. 



"Iris light red; bill and feet black." Wing 106 mm, tail 70, tarsus 19.5, bill from 



nostril 11 mm (rf, Bonthain, S. Celebes: Ribbe & Ktihn — Nr. 13556). 

 Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but with a slight purphsh gloss on the head 



(Sharpe 8). 

 Young. Browner than the adults, with a slight green gloss; below dull white, with broad 



blackish streaks; sides of body uniform dull brown; iris red (Sharpe 8). 

 Observation. The tail is not graduated but square in shape. 

 Distribution. Lombok (Wallace i, S, etc. 75, i5); Sumbawa (Guillemard 7, Doherty 25); 



Sumba (Riedel .5, 10, ten Kate 5, Doherty IS); Flores (Wallace i, 8); Timor 



(Mus. Leyden a 1, Wallace i, S, Mus. Dresd. 6)\ South Celebes (Eibbe & Kiihn 



6, Weber 11, etc. U, 15). 



This species, a native of the Lesser Sunda Islands, has been obtained by 

 Ribbe & Kiihn, Weber, the Sarasins, and Everett in the extreme south 

 of South Celebes, but nowhere else at present in the island. It may be dis- 

 tinguished from C. panayensis of the Northern Peninsula by the dark purple of 

 the hackle-feathers of the throat, sides of neck and (to some extent) hind neck, 

 by its smaller bill and shorter tarsus. From C. metallica it differs by the different 

 green of its plumage, the absence of purple on the mantle, its short square 

 tail and smaller size. Once, again, this bird exemplifies the rule that Lesser 

 Sundan forms predominate in South Celebes, not in the North. 



^* 233. CALORNIS SULAENSIS Sharpe. 

 Sula Glossy Starling. 

 Plate XXXVI. 



(I. Calornis obscura var. (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 343. 



//. Lamprotornis obscurus pt. (1) Finsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 174 (Sula). 



Meyer & Wigl es wfi r tb, Birds of t'elel)es (Not. Hith 1897). 71 



