Birds of Celebes: Campopbagidae. 421 
rl examples from West Celebes also seem to be intermediate (see Hartert 
a 51 shown by the formula: ' -naitert 
Edoliisoma morio — septentrionalis 
Northern birds and are yet not the same as the Eastern ones 
, r imght not, be desirable to employ more complex formulae. ' 
Skeleton. 
47.3 mm 
19.7 
27.0 
31.8 
28.0 
29.0 
16.8 
12.8 
24.0 
33.0 
13.0 
Length of tarso-metatarsus 
Length of digitus III . . 
Length of sternum . . . 
Glreatest breadth of sternum 
Height of crista sterni . . 
Length of coracoid . . 
Length of scapula . . 
Length of clavicula . 
Length of pelvis .... 
Greatest breadth of pelvis 
19.5 mm 
20.0 » 
25.6 » 
18.0 > 
8.5 » 
22.0 ^ 
24.0 » 
22.3 >. 
29.0 » 
17.8 » 
Length of cranium . 
Greatest breadth of cranium 
Length of humerus . 
Length of ulna . . . ' 
Length of radius .... 
Length of manus 
Length of metacarpus 
Length of digitus principalis 
Length of femur 
Lengtli of tibia 
Length of fibula . . ’ ' 
Nest and eggs. Unrecorded. 
San<»^Monffn ('^^Lace 5, Meyer d 3, etc.), Lembeh Id. (Nat. Coll.), 
W. Celebes fDohe Gorontalo (Leyd. Mus. b 3), Tawaya, 
(Weber 8\ Ps Jonkean, E. Celebes (Nat. Coll.), Palopo, Gulf of Boni 
to ^ew Caledomo and Papuasia 
Uap. TW ? 7 the Philip, nnea and an island of the Caroline Archipelago, 
hers of tb^ «ckoo-slmkes are a good deal similar in the male sex to mem- 
the males « females, however, generally difler notably from 
species The another, affording the best means of distinguishing the 
females are 1 , generally resemble their respective mothers, but where the 
Panav and F e below, as in E. panayensis Steere of Guimaras and 
the youno- win*"^'^ rt ~ the male plumage, 
that the feLL instructive and puzzling. It may be inferred 
several species hi females of the 
of plumage cannori ^^ongst themselves so much that the ancestral type 
ences^— recentG afford no clue. The maternal specific diflfer- 
the vouno- straightway impressed upon the plumage of 
be expected to distr^^V^^ phylogenetic peculiarities which might then 
.1 o gonus or family is never shown by a young bird m- 
the joung of the different species would be exac.ly alike - and thft the rec 
acqujs.t.oos of the species obscure more or less the transient phylogenetic uTaraC 
which should come to view in the growing bird, n.oreov:r,^hratuMr?f 
