644 Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 



"Burong kuku", Talissi, Hickson 16. 



"Buluhuo" [?Gorontalo Distr.], Eosenberg 6. 



"Bukuru busar", Tjaml)a Distr., Platen e 8. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! 20. 



Figures and descriptions. Knip a /; Reichenbach II\ Wallace d 2; Legge 7; Salvadori 

 e 5, 20; Gates 12; Vorderman 13. 



Adult male. General colour above deep drab, the back and wing-coverts with paler margins, 

 the wing-coverts and inner secondaries with broad blackish mesial streaks, the back 

 and upper tail-coverts with finer streaks; carpus and outermost wing-coverts 

 cinereous with dark streaks; winglet and primary-coverts black, remiges blackish 

 brown; feathers of hind neck bifid, black, tipped with white, or, next the mantle, 

 with pale brown; head and nape vinous-grey, forehead and cheeks pure deep ciner- 

 eous, cliin whitish; narrow rictal streak black; throat and breast deep vinous- 

 grey, becoming on abdomen washed with buff: under tail-coverts white (rarely, as 

 in this sijecimen, with a small dusky spot on a few at the tip of the shaft), meta- 

 carpal edge and axillaries cinereous, the inner under wing-coverts black; the 

 two middle tail-feathers brown Hke the back, the remaining five pairs black, 

 the three outermost broadly tipped with white (c. 35 nmi), becoming narrower and 

 changing to dusky grey on the two next: uis brown (Guillemard e 9) or Ught red 

 (Platen e S); bill brown-black (e 9) or black (e 8); feet pinkish [e 9) or cherry-red 

 (e8); (cf ad., Tomohon, 13. m. 94: P.&F. Sarasin; and others). 



Female. Similar to the male, only shghtly smaller (Salvad. 20); fore-neck and breast not 

 so richly tinged with vinaceous; head above bro^\Tier (2, Kema, early in Sept. 1893: 

 P.& F. Sarasin). 



Young. Without the cervical collar of bifid, wliite-tipped black feathers; hind neck greyish 

 bro^vn, some of the feathers shghtly bifid with dusky bases; the wing-coverts and 

 scapulars terminally edged with whitish or cinnamon; under-parts more buff-tinted 

 (Siao, 4. Vn. 93 — C 12645; Banka 14. V. 93 — 12301: Nat. Coll.,. 



Fledgling. Two squabs about half-grown, which appear to be correctly determined as the 

 young of T. tigrinus, have most of the feathers in brownish leaden sheaths, the sprouted 

 ends of the remiges brown; primaries 10, the distal lO"* primary-covert well developed, 

 but no trace (scJ far as we can make out) of an 11"" primary; rectrices 12, the longest 

 (the S"* pau' fi'om the middle) 25 mm; the two outermost pairs pure white, the next 

 mostly white, leaden towards base, the three inner pairs dark leaden, the middle j^air 

 shorter than the 2"'\ 3''^ and 4'''. The middle pair and the 4"' are set on a liigher 

 plane than the remaining 2"'" and y^, and 5"^ and (3"' pau-s (Kema, 14. Sept. 1893: 

 P.&F. Sarasin). 



Measurements. Wing 151 mm; tail ca. 150, tarsus 26; bill from feathers of forehead 15. 

 Eggs. Two, white, moderately elongated ovals, with a very fine shell and some gloss; 



c. 30 X 22 mm (Hume 18). 

 Nest. Flimsily built of fine twigs, usually in thick bamboo-brakes at 10 — 20 feet, often in a 



thick jujube tree (Lower Pegu — Gates 18), or in a bush. 

 Breeding season. The above-described fledglings from the Minahassa were taken by the Drs. 



Sarasin on the H"" of September, 1893 in Kema. Mr. Gates remarks that it seems 



to breed at all times of the year in Pegu. 

 Distribution. N.E.Cachar (Inglis S;; Bui-mah (Gates i2); Nicobars (Lewis rf 4); Tenasserim 



(Briggs e 5, Davison d 8, 20 etc.); Cochin China (St. Pierre 20); Siam (Schom- 



burgk e'5]; Malay Peninsula (Cantor 20, Wallace d 2, etc.); Sumatra (Davison 



