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YISCOTJNT "WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 



an obscure brown band at the root of the feathers. The outer pair have seven bands. 

 The plumage of the under surface of the body is fulvous, each feather with a bold 

 brown longitudinal central stripe. The under tail- and shoulder-coverts are unspotted 

 fulvous. The middle toe is very long ; and the tail is conspicuously forked. 



The second example is of a young female, much resembling the male above described, 

 but having bold brown drops on the under shoulder-coverts and axillaries, and the 

 general colouring of the upper surface not quite so bright a chestnut. In it also the 

 tail is not forked, and the outer pair of rectrices are shorter than the middle. 



The third example is of a young female passing from the chestnut plumage of no. 2 

 into that of the adult. The nuchal feathers are ashy ; and a few similar plumes are 

 interspersed on the throat and upper part of the breast. The breast-feathers and a few 

 on the flanks are pure vinous red. A few of the upper tail-coverts are dark ashy ; and 

 one of the long wing-coverts has come in ash-coloured, and with two pure white spots 

 on the inner web. The chestnut colouring of the remainder of the plumage is very 

 dingy and faded. The tail is not forked. 



Dimensions. 



The toes are measured without the nails. The nails of the inner toe and hallux are 

 very large, strong, and equal. Those of the middle and outer toes are slender and 

 short. 



Tachtspiza soloensis (Horsf.), antea, p. 34. 



This species also inhabits China, extending at least as far north as Pekin (Swinhoe, 

 (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 342). 



Limnaetus lanceolatus, Bp., antea, p. 34. 



Four examples from North Celebes have reached me — two (male and female) fully 

 adult, and two (male and female) in the immature plumage already described (I. s. c). 

 The adult pair do not diner ; and the example of the immature female only differs from 

 that of the male by having the two pairs of middle rectrices more frequently banded 

 and in a different manner. In the adult birds of both sexes the middle rectrices have 

 a broad, terminal, dark brown band ; then, above, a broader band of pale greyish brown, 

 and then three narrow dark brown bands separated by broad pale bands. This is also 



