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Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
GENUS STOPAROLA Blytli. 
These Flycatchers are distinguishahle hy their grey-hlue or verditer colo- 
ration, the males differing from the females by their black lores. The wing 
formula is very like that of Siphia, from which it differs chiefly by the bill, 
which is shorter, though equally broad at the base, and the tarsus is also relative- 
ly a little shorter. The plumage of the rump and flanks seems to be of a 
softer and thicker character. The male has a sweet song (Legge, Sarasins). 
The genus is found from Afghanistan to the Philippines, Celebes, and Java. 
* 128. STOPAROLA SEPTENTRIONALIS Btitt. 
North Celebesian Blue Flycatcher. 
Plate XV. 
Stoparola septentrionalis (1) Biittik, Notes Leyd. Mas. 1893, 169; (2) M. & Wg., Abh. Mas. 
Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 9; (3) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 5. 
Description. Biittikofer 1. 
Male. Verditer-blae, paling into whitish on the abdomen and white on the ander tail-coverts. 
Forehead and saperciliary stripe, and apper throat bright pale blae; lores jet-black; 
angle of chin at the gonys blackish; remiges and tail dasky, washed externally with 
the verditer-blae of the back; wing and tail below dasky, the ander wing-coverts 
(except the oater ones) and the inner edges of the remiges white: bill black, legs 
and feet dark in skin ((J', Mt. Lokon, N. Cel., 1. YII. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
Female. Like the male, bat withoat the black lores (thoagh the feathers here have black 
bases), the bright saperciliary stripe hardly at all j^ronoanced, and there is less bright 
light blae on the forehead and apper throat; the blae on the apper sarface, throat, 
and breast a shade darker and daller (§, Tomohon, 4. VI. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
Nestling. Bemiges and rectrices (half-grown) as in the adalt; head and neck blackish, each 
feather with a tawny sabterminal spot; remaining apper parts dall hlaish grey with 
daller tawny spots ; ander parts whitish washed with tawny, brighter tawny on breast, 
all the feathers with U-shaped margins of blackish: bill yellowish, browner above ((J' ?, 
Tomohon, 13. XI. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
ments. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) (J’ ad. Tomohon, 3. Y. 94 .... 
70 
53 
16 
8 
h. (C 13898) rf ad. Tomohon, 6. Y. 94 (P. & F. S.) . . 
71 
51 
16 
8 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) (J' ad. Mt. Lokon, 1. YD. 94 . . . 
74 
55 
16 
— 
d. (Sarasin Coll.) (T ad. Mt. Masarang, 25. lY. 94 
73 
54 
— 
7.5 
e. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 8. lY. 94 
71 
52 
15.5 
8 
/'. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 4. YI. 94 
70 
50 
— 
7.5 
g. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 18. X. 94 
69 
48 
— 
7.5 
Nest. Of small roots, moss, and fibres, lined with hair-like vegetable fibres; stated by the 
finder to have been sitaated in grass: in shape a flat hemisphere, the cap 45 mm 
diam. by 35 deep, the walls aboat 35 thick (see plate: Tomohon, 8. Jane 1894: 
Sarasin Coll.). 
Distribation. North Celebes — Minahassa, Tondano (von Bosenberg i), Manado District 
(v. Daivenbode i), Tomohon, Mt. Masarang and Mt. Lokon (P. & F. Sarasin). 
