Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
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Male, scarcely adult. Like the adult male, but somewhat greyer above; the wings in changing 
plumage, for the most part resembling those of the female; the abdomen less clear 
whitish (Lompohatang, S. Cel. c. 2500 m; Oct. 1895: Sarasin Coll.). 
Female. Above olive, tinged with grey, tail and wings externally histre-hrown; lores, base 
of forehead, around the eye, and throat isahelline, inclining to orange-rufous on 
the breast and under wing-coverts; abdomen whitish, olivaceous on the sides, flanks, 
and thighs: “hill black; iris dark brown; legs and feet reddish grey” (Q, summit- 
region of Mt. Klabat, N. Cel., end Sept. 1893: Sarasin Coll.). 
Young. Above warm dark brown, blacldsh on head, the feathers everywhere with broad 
mesial streaks of tawny; wings and tail blackish brown with warm brown edgings; 
below tawny, whitish on throat and abdomen and under tail-coverts, the feathers on 
sides of throat, breast, sides and flanks margined with dusky: “bill above black-brown, 
tip yellow, below yellow and brown; iris dark brown; legs reddish yellow; feet yellow” 
((^, summit-region of Mt. Klabat, 25. Sept. 1893: Sarasin Coll.). 
meuts. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill 
fr. nostr. 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) ad. Mt.Masarang, N. Cel., 16. YH. 94 
60 
40 
19 
7 
h. (Saras. C.) ad. Mt. Lokon, N. Cel., c. 1200m, l.YH. 94 
60 
38 
18.5 
— 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) Q, Mt. Klabat, end Sept. 93. . . . 
57 
34 
18 
6 
d. (Sar. C.) (J'vix ad. Lompobatang, S.Cel.c. 2500m, Oct. 95 
66 
45 
20 
7 
The female is evidently smaller than the male. The specimen from S. Celebes 
is very large. Oates’ measurements of Indian specimens are equal to those of N. 
Celebes. 
Nest and eggs. Nest a deep cup of moss and moss-roots, placed under the roots, etc. of a 
tree: eggs 4 or 3, pale greyish or brownish white, finely freckled and mottled, chiefly 
at the large end, with dingy brownish red: 17.3 X 11.2 mm (Hodgson c T). 
Distribution. India (Oates etc. c 2); Malay Peninsula (fide Sharpe 1); Sumatra (Wallace 1); 
Borneo (Whitehead 2, 5, Hose 6)\ W. Java (Wallace i); Bali (Doherty 9); Lom- 
bok (Doherty and Everett 5); Sumbawa (Doherty 9)] Celebes — North (P. & F. 
Sarasin S), South (Everett 5, P. & E. S., Doherty 10). 
This little Flycatcher is very like a Siphia, sex for sex. The white supra- 
loral stripe of the male is its most striking distinguishing character: it is much 
smaller than Siphia and has also a smaller bill. The credit of its discovery in 
Celebes belongs to the Sarasins, who got it at high elevations in the Mina- 
hassa in 1893 — 94. It was also found by Everett and Doherty and — in one 
young specimen — by the Sarasins on the lofty Bonthain Range in the south 
of the island. In India, Borneo, Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa, it is known 
only from the mountains, or from mountainous countries; and it is evident that 
it is purely a hill-species. It is probably most nearly allied to M. hodgsoni (V err.) 
of Indo-China, the male of which wants the white eyebrow. 
GENUS SIPHIA Hdgs. 
The Celebesian species of this genus are, when adult, blue or olive above, 
and chiefly orange-rufous below; some forms from other parts have the rufous 
confined to the region of the throat. The wing is longer than the tail, the 
