140 ON THE GENUS CITTURA. 



Siao specimens quite agree with the Great-Sangi ones, and show no tendency 

 at all to approach the Cclebean species. 



" Another fact is perhaps worth especial mention : it is this, that a 

 character in one species (viz. the white superciliary spots in C. sanghirensis^ 

 belongs to both sexes, in the other (in C. cyanotis) only to the female. Also 

 the fact as to its genesis remains to be ascertained by any one who wishes 

 to know in which way the variation of species proceeds ; but we cannot at 

 this time enter deeper into the subject." 



The following translations refer to these species. 



Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Ale. 1864, p. 22:— 



" Dacelo cyanotis, Temm. PI. Col. 262. 



" Wing 3" 8'" to 4" 2'", tail 3" to 3" 6'", bill 13'" to 14"'. Bill large, flat- 

 tened above, reddish. Head and tail reddish yellow above. A supercihary 

 stripe and cheeks of a pale rosy colour. A very broad postocular stripe and 

 wing-coverts dark cobalt-blue, in the young blackish. The other upper 

 parts of a yellowish-brown colour ; the underparts white, turning to reddish 

 yellow. 



" Observed on the island of Celebes. 



'•' Collected by Forsten." 



Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Ale. 1874, p. 14 : — 



"Collected by Von Rosenberg and Van Duyvenbode." 



" Dacelo sanghirensis, Schlegel. 



" Cittura sanghirensis, Sharpe. 

 We owe this discovery to M. Hoedt. I had distributed, in the year 



