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Birds of Celebes: Alcedinidae. 
wliitisli of the chin and throat not extending so far down towards the jugulum (type 
l(f] Tonkean, East Celebes, May— Aug. 1896: Nat. Coll. — C 14761). 
Wing 150 mm; tail 115; hill from nostril 41; tarsus 21. 
Female. Like the male, hut the superciliary region, face and ear-coverts ferruginous, below 
the eye blackish and at the base of hill varied with blackish; hack a shade yellower 
olive; “eye brownish grey, bill orange [redj , feet orange- brown” ; wing 146 mm; 
tail 120; tarsus 22; hill from nostril 42 (Q, Macassar, July 1896: W. Doherty in 
the Tring Museum). 
Distribution. Eastern and Southern Peninsulas of Celebes: Tonkean (Nat. Coll.), Macassar 
(Doherty). 
At the time of writing only two specimens of this species are known, the 
type, a male in the Dresden Museum, and a female from Macassar in the Tring 
Museum most kindly lent to us for comparison by Mr. Hartert. Possibly the 
head of the latter is not quite so deep black as in the male, the middles of 
the feathers having a stronger sea-green tint and being more powMery- looking. 
The feathers appear to be fresher than in the type, the more powdery look is 
probably transient and the head might get blacker with wear. The back is a 
shade yellower olive. These differences are so small that they will probably 
be more than bridged over by individual variation. There is a gloss of blue- 
green on the head of the male, hardly perceptible except on the cheeks and 
ear-coverts, and the concealed middles of the feathers are greyish — not 
clear black. It would be a matter of much interest if this well-marked form 
should prove in other parts of Celebes to pass into the typical M. monachus by 
imperceptible gradations. Mr. Hartert, as shown above, has described a form 
from lawaya. West Celebes, which he considers intermediate (cf. supra). It 
differs from M. capucinus by having a deep blue , or deep greenish blue, cowl, 
and a wash of blue on the tail. 
The Eastern Peninsula of Celebes is separated from the Northern Peninsula 
only by the 40 miles or so of width of the Gulf of Tomini, but by land the 
distance is much greater than from the Southern Peninsula. It can therefore 
call for no great surprise, if the fauna of the Eastern Peninsula proves to have 
more in common with the Southern than with the Northern Peninsula. Besides 
M. capucinus, other characteristic southern forms which have been found in the 
Eastern Peninsula are Microstictus wallacei and Pyrrhocentor celebensis rufescens. 
The specimens of Phoenicophaes are more like the northern individuals; some 
other birds are not yet known from other quarters of Celebes. 
h 94. MONACHALCYON PRINCEPS Rchb. ) 
Juvenile Cowled Kingfisher. 
a. [Dacelo cyanocephala Forsten in lit.] 
h. [Dacelo monachus Temm. MS. Leyd. Mus.] 
ij For a long time this species was held by Schlegel, Sharpe, and other ornithologists to be the 
young of M. monachus. It was recognised as distinct by Temm inch and Forsten, but the names chosen 
