Birds of Celebes: Sturnidae. 



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Immatare, Browner slate-gi'ey than the adult, superciliary stripe yellower and less broad 

 (Minahassa: Faber — C 3504; Briigg. 10). 



Measurements. 



a. (Sarasin Coll.) cf ad., Tomohon 



a'". (Sarasin CoU.) (f ad., Tomohon, 5. IV. 95 . . . 



b. (Sarasin Coll.) $ ad., Tomohon 



c. (Sarasin Coll.) Q ad., Tomohon 



d. (C 2193) ad., Kakas, June 71 (Meyer) ... 



e. (C 2192) ad., Kakas, June 71 (Meyer) 



f. (C 5218) ad., Manado (Musschenbr.) 



g. (C 3503) ad., Minahassa (Faber) 



h. (C 10825) ad., near Tondano, Aug.— Sept.92 (Nat. Coll. 

 /. (C 2195) vix ad., Kakas, June 71 (Meyer) . . . 



Bill from 

 nostril 



13.5 



13 



12.5 



12.5 



13.5 



13.5 



13.5 



12.5 



13 



13 



12 



/ (C 3504) unm., Minahassa (Faber) I 106 



Nest, eggs, etc. Unknown. The nest and nestlings in the Sarasin Collection, labelled as 

 belonging to Eiwdes eryfhrophrys, and recorded by us as such (17), seem to belong to 

 Dicrurus leucops. 



Distribution. Celebes, Northern Peninsula: Minahassa (Reinwardt a J, Wallace .5, 14, 

 Meyer 11, etc.); "lie Taguatto" = ? Paguat, Gulf of Tomini (Reinwardt a I). 



The Red-browed Starling of Celebes is the only representative of the genus 

 Enodes, one of the peculiar types of the island. Except for Reinwardt's 

 specimen from Paguat, it has up to the present been recorded only from the 

 Minahassa. Here it seems to be purely a hill species, most of the specimens 

 on record having been killed in the neighbourhood of Lake Tondano; Rosenberg 

 mentions the fact that he never met with it in the Gorontalo Province. 



The genus seems to stand midway between Calornis and Acridotheres. By 

 its bill, wing -formula, and strongly graduated tail, it answers very well to 

 the Calornis metaUica-gvou]); its non- metallic plumage agrees better with the 

 tints of Acridotheres tristis (L.) of the Indian countries, it also resembles birds 

 of this genus by its legs and feet. The striking orange-red colour of the super- 

 ciliary stripe no doubt has some connection with the peculiar bristly character 

 of the feathers here ; the red of the wax tips on the inner quills of the Wax- 

 wing (Ampelis garrula), and the red tips of the rump -feathers of Scissirostrum 

 may prove to be of somewhat similar structure. Another point of interest is 

 the pale yellowish of the projecting 2 cm of the two middle tail-feathers, they 

 look as if they have become more bleached through greater exposure. Many 

 birds have the tip of the tail paler or more colourless than the rest of it. 



GENUS ACRIDOTHERES VieiU. 



The frontal plumes erect or slightly turned backAvards, and growing above 

 the nostril as far forward as the anterior margin thereof; bill as long as the 

 head and somewhat tapering, yellow, the gape deep and turned downwards at 



