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Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
"‘We heard the bird singing on the topmost point of Lompobatang, on the tall- 
est tree in South Celebes. The song is very melodious”. It and S. septentrio- 
nalis are evidently only geographical races. 
GENUS HYPOTHYMIS Boie. 
The Blue Flycatchers may be distinguished from all the foregoing by their 
having the tail as long as the wings; the wing is more rounded, the second 
primary shorter than the secondaries, which are about "% the length of the 
wing, the 5*^^ and 6^^ primaries the longest. The bill is moderately large, 
the culmen from the frontal suture almost as long as the cranium ; the rictal 
bristles large and strong, the longest reaching nearly as far as the tip of the 
bill. The genus is found from the Himalayas as far as the Philippines, Celebes, 
Sula, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. 
4- * 130. HYPOTHYMIS PUELLA (Wall.). 
Long-tailed Blue Flycatcher. 
a. Muscicapa coerulea (1) S. Mlill. (nec Grm.), Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839 — 43,91; (2) id., 
Reiz. Ind. Archip. 1858, H, 15. 
b. Myiagra puella (1) Wall, P. Z. S. 1862, 340 (ex Cray MS.); (2) Cray, HL. 1872, I, 
328, Nrs. 4931, 4932; (3) Brligg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 68; (4) Rosenb., 
Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 273. 
Hypothymis puella (I) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 66, pi. VII, fig. 2; (2) Salvad., Ann. 
Mas. Civ. Cen. 1875, VH, 656; (3) Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 373; (4) Sharpe, Cat. 
B. IV, 1879, 277; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 128, 146; (6) W. Bias., J. 1 0. 1883, 
117, 137; (7) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 25; (8) Bias., Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 
278; 1886, 112; (9) Cnillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 553; (10) Tristr., Oat. Coll. B. 1889, 
197 (Sula Is.); (11) Heine & Rcbnw. , Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 35; Buttik., 
Zook Erg. Weber’s Reise Ost-Ind. 1893, HI, 278; (XIP^^) Meyer, Yogelskeb, I, 
1894, t. CCIH; (13) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Rr. 8, p. 9; (14) iid., ib. 
1896, Nr. 1, p. 9; (15) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 14; (16) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 157; 
(17) id., ib. 1897, 157, 162. 
c. Myiagra azurea (1) Pelz. (nec Bodd.), Verb. z.-b. Ces. Wien 1873, April (fide Bias. 6). 
“Rui” (Meyer 5) or “Ruirui” (Nat. Coll.), Minahassa — a name taken from its call-note. 
“Ting-kuikui”, Tonkean, E. Celebes (NO.). 
“Tangkui”, Banggai (N. 0.). 
Figures and descriptions. Walden/; Meyer (skeleton); Wallace hi] Bruggemann 
h 3] Sharpe 4. 
Adult male. Campanula-blue; brightest on the head, lores, chin and lesser wing-coverts, 
duller and greyer on lower back and breast, passing almost into olive-grey on the 
abdomen, flanks and under tail-coverts ; exposed webs of wings and tail blue like the 
back, below dusky olive-grey; on forehead and chin at base of bill a narrow edge 
of black; under Aving-coverts whitish (Kema, (T, Febr. 1873: 0 743, Meyer). 
Iris blue (Meyer 5, Platen 8) — eyelids blue, iris dark (Wall, hi) — iris 
brown (Cuillem. 9 — the differences in the statements of the collectors may be of a 
