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bold relief. By this character it more nearly approaches A. chlorigastra, but has the breast 

 slightly darker than in that bird, and is decidedly smaller in size, as the measurements above 

 given will show. The plumage, again, of the female is very different from either of these other 

 species, if indeed we are correct in our supposed adult female of A. chlorigastra. 



This species was first recorded from Celebes by Miiller, and appears to be abundant 

 throughout that island. It has also been collected in the Togian Islands, in the Gulf of 

 Tomine, by Dr. Meyer — and in the Sula Islands by Mr. Wallace, who observes : — " This is the 

 furthest eastward range of the species, which does not reach the Moluccas." 



Count Salvadori has recorded it from Kandari (Beccari) and from Menado (Bruijn), and was 

 the first to suggest the probability that the birds from Celebes, Sula, Sanghir, and the Philippines 

 would prove to be distinct from A. malaccensis. 



Dr. Meyer has kindly submitted to me for examination three males and four females 

 collected by himself at Macassar and Batubassi in the south, and at Menado, Limboth, and the 

 Togian Islands in the north. I have also seen other females of his collecting, and a young male 

 from Celebes in the Marquis of Tweeddale's collection ; and the characters as above mentioned I 

 rind to be perfectly constant in all the birds examined. 



The specimens here figured and described are an adult male from Macassar, in the Dresden 

 Museum, and a female from the Togian Islands in the Marquis of Tweeddale's collection. 



