^^8 BRODERIPUS FORMOSUS. 



Dr. Meyer remarks thus : — 



" I obtained this species as well from the island of Siao as from the 

 island Great Sangi ; the exact locality on the latter was Tabukan, on the 

 north-east coast. Briiggemann (p. 61) says that 'the bird perhaps might 

 occur on Celebes ;' but this cannot be, according to my opinion. It is 

 represented there by Broderipus celelensis, Walden. There could only be 

 the question whether Broderipus frontalis (Wall.), from the Sula Islands, or 

 an aUied species, occurs on the north-eastern peninsula of the island (in 

 Bangai) or not; on the north-western peninsula (the Minahassa) no 

 sufficient reason has been adduced up to this time to raise the question of 

 the occurrence of a larger species of Broderipus J' 



Prof. Dr. Jean Cabanis (Journ. f. Orn. xx. 1872, p. 392, Meeting of the 

 German Ornithological Society at Berlin, September 2nd, 1872) "describes 

 an Oriolus, discovered by the well-known traveller Dr. A. B. Meyer, from Siao, 

 one of the Sangi Islands, and now in the possession of the Berlin Museum. It 

 approaches Oriolus acrorhynchus, Vig., from the Philippine Islands, and Oriolus 

 frontalis^ Wall., from the Sula Islands, but is easily distinguishable by its size, 

 in which it exceeds all the hitherto known species of the genus Oriolus, 



" Oriolus formosus. Cab. 



" Bill in form and coloration as in the species named above, but larger, 

 with sharply edged ridge ; front yellow ; sinciput black ; sides of the head, 

 nape, rump, tips of the tail-feathers, and the whole of the underparts yellow. 

 The whole back, as well as the wing-coverts, green-coloured. The quills 

 simply blackish, without any signs of a yellowish patch [^Spieger] ; the quills 

 of the hand \_Handschwingen\ slightly whitish ; the quills of the arm 

 \_Armschwingen~\ greenish-edged (the same green colour as on the back), 

 the edge becoming broader towards the back. Feet dark. Total length 

 about 13^ bill from the angle of the mouth 1'^ 7'", from the front l" 5i'"; 

 win^ 6^' 8'^' ; tail 5'' ; tarsus 1^ 



