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Birds of Celebes: Campophagidae. 
Sumatra and Java where L. lucionensis is scarce or even, as regards the latter- 
locality, unknown. While L. tigrinus seems to travel over the mainland of S. E. 
Asia down the Malay Peninsula to the Great Sunda Islands, E. hidonensis like 
most other migrants crosses the sea to the Philippines and elsewhere. A some- 
what similar case seems to be afforded by the two Hawks Butastur liventer and 
indicus, though more evidence in the case of B. liventer is wanting. 
Swinhoe remarks upon the chattering cry and skulking habits of L. lu- 
cionemis: “It possesses a melodious song of no mean capacity, but it is gener- 
ally uttered in a subdued tone. It feeds on large insects, especially TAheUidae, 
but oftener, I think, on small birds, more particularly of the Phgltoscopus group” 
(4). Abbe David says that the Pekinese use it in hawking small birds, and 
greatly appreciate it for its sweet and melodious song. In the Andamans 
Davison found it a very silent bird, keeping to gardens and the cleared parts 
on the settlements; few birds sing, however, save in the season of courtship 
and honeymoon. It would appear, therefore , from this also that the bird does 
not breed in the Andamans. 
Lanius ergthronotus Vig., distinguished by its smoke-grey head and back, is 
nearly related to it. 
FAMILY CAMPOPHAGIDAE. 
These birds vary in size from the dimensions of a Sparrow to those of a 
Jackdaw, and are best characterized by the plumage of the rump, which is very 
thick and close, with the shafts of the feathers thickened and stiff, much as in 
many Cuckoos and Pigeons. The bill is moderate, denticulated, sometimes very 
strong, rictal bristles few and not conspicuous; the nostril often hidden by the 
frontal plumes and scanty small bristles; the wing is rather long, the secondaries 
about V;s to V 4 of its length, the second primary longer than the secondaries, 
the first about half the length of the second; the tail somewhat long, occasion- 
ally exceeding the wing-length; the tarsus short, about the length of the culmen, 
more or less. 
The family is found in the Australian, Oriental, and Ethiopian Regions. 
Among the Campophagidae, the genus Graucalus, under which name we include 
the genus Artamides of some authors, is found in the Oriental Region, Papuasia, 
Australia, Madagascar and Africa. As regards plumage the four species of the 
Celebesian area are among the more highly specialized, and show on the whole 
stronger affinities with Papuasia than with the Oriental Region. Edoliisoma ranges 
from Australia to the Philippines and Uap in the Carolines. The Celebesian 
forms appear to have very likely reached the Province by flight from the west. 
Of the two species of Lalage occurring in Celebes, one, L. leucopggialis, we take 
for an advanced form of L. terat of the Oriental Region; the other, L. timorensis, 
seems to have reached the island recently from the Lesser Sunda Group. The 
