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Birds of Celebes: Campopbagidae. 
(6) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 130; (7) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 137, 147; (8) Meyer, 
Isis, Dresden 1884, 30; (9) Guillem., P. Z. 8. 1885, 259, 554; (10) W. Bias., 
Ztsclir. ges. Om. 1886, 112; (XI) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel. 1892, I, 41, pi. OLXYII; 
(12) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, III, 278; (13) M. & Wg., 
Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 9; (14) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 15; (15) Hart, 
Nov. Zool. 1896, 156; (16) id., ib. 1897, 162. 
“Maspas kokie”, or “Maspas biabia”, Minabassa near Manado and islands off the coast 
Nat Coll. 
“Merapati ise ise”, Tonkean, E. Cel., Nat. Coll. 
“Pakampi batu”, Tjamba Distr., 8. Celebes, Platen. 
“Manua bembeh’", Peling; “Tejana popoloso”, Banggai, Nat. Coll. 
Figures and descriptions. Walden /; Meyer XT (skeleton); 8harpe 4'); W. Blasius 10. 
Adult male. Above glossy greenish black; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts 
wliite, slightly shaded with grey on the lower back; middle wing-coverts, most 
of outer webs of the greater coverts and a broad external edge to the 
secondaries white, a broad superciliary streak from nostril to side of 
occiput, malar region, lower part of ear-coverts, and entire under surface 
white; lores and upper part of ear-coverts black like the upper surface; wings 
below greyish black, where they rest upon the sides of the body white; tail 
black, the lateral feathers tipped with white, about 18 mm broad in the outermost 
pair, 10 mm in the next, 5 mm in the third (Manado, o’, March, 1871 : Meyer 
C 693; Manado tua, marked O', 6. IV. 93: Nat. Coll. — 12138). Iris brown; bill 
and feet black (Guillem. 9). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in having the hind neck, mantle, upper back, and 
scapulars .smoke-grey instead of black; the greater wing-coverts much more narrowly 
edged with Avliite, the middle coA^erts marked with black; the white lower back, rump 
and upper tail-coverts washed Avith grey; the middle tail-feathers brownish grey, the 
ends black; the breast usually obscurely baiTed; metacarpal edge marked with black; 
other parts as in the male (Manado, $, Mar’ch, 1871 — C 692, and others). 
Immature. Bike the adult female, but the feathers of the smoke-grey parts of the upper 
surface broadly tipped with light cinnamon, the feathers of the crown dusky tipped 
Avith cinnamon ; the white under parts marked on the breast with dusky shaft-streaks 
(near Manado, Aug.— 8ept. 1893: Nat. Coll. — C 10884, 10883). 
Measurements (12 adidts — male and female'b). Wing 9i)— 97 mm; tail 75 ca.; tarsus 18—20; 
bill from nostril 9.5 — 11 ca. 
Skeleton, 
Length of cranium .... 
35.0 
mm 
Length of fibula 
8.3 
mni 
Greatest breadth of cranium . 
16.0 
Length of tarso-metatarsus . 
18.0 
» 
Length of humerus .... 
22.3 
> 
I^ength of digitus ITT 
16.0 
» 
Length of ulna 
25.7 
Length of sternum .... 
20.5 
Length of radius 
23.7 
Greatest breadth of sternum . 
16.5 
Length of manus 
25.0 
Height of crista sterni . 
7.0 
» 
Length of metacarpus . . ., 
13.8 
Length of coracoid .... 
18.0 
» 
Length of digitus principalis . 
10.6 
Length of scapula .... 
20.0 
Length of femur 
19.0 
Length of clavicula .... 
16.0 
» 
Length of tibia 
27.8 
» 
Length of pelvis 
21.5 
» 
b In Dr. Sharpe’s descriptions — instead of “adult male”, read “immature male” or “adult 
female”! 
2) Two or three in the female dress are probably immature males, the grey of the upper plumage being 
marked with black. ^ 
