Birds of Celebes: Campopbagidae. 
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gg. ‘Dr. Platen sent me an egg of this bii-d from Eurukan, which except for a difference 
in size, resembles those of its relations L. Rykesi Sws. of East India, trimlor (Bodd ) 
of Australia, terat (Bodd.) of Java, imdfica Gml. from the Tonga Islands and 
Imcomdaem V. & H. of Australia and the Aru Islands. The ground -coloui- is 
lue-green; the spots of liver-hrown, which are somewhat large, not sharplv defined, 
ut lengthened, are ecjually distributed over the Avhole egg and form no circlet. The 
shell is very smooth and glossy. Size 21.5 X 16 mm. Black streaks and points as 
on the egg of L. hucopijcjialis are to be found on the eggs of almost all Campo- 
^ pmgtdae here and there, but always few and far between” (Nehrkorn MS .) 
allied L. terat Bodd. [— oi'ientaUe Gm.] of Java is thus described 
by Bernstein [J. f. 0. 1859, 274]: the small, flat, nest of only about 2 inches in 
diameter consists only of some few bents, small roots and such like, and the support 
most preferred for it is a hough, upon which it is built and which usually forms of 
Itself a part of the nest bottom. Consequently the bii-d likes to make 'use of the 
place where a not too weak bough forms a fork for the site of the nest, which in 
tins way also receives strong support at the sides. Externally it is spun over with 
spiders and caterpillars’ web, and covered with small bits of hchen. In this simple 
I’agile nest the female lays its two eggs.) ’ 
Distribution Celebes - Minahassa (Wallace o, Meyer 6, etc.); Banka Id. and Manado 
n n?’ Gorontalo Distr. (Meyer ff); Tonkean, E. Celebes 
Mn.!' W. Celebes (Doherty 16)- Kandari, S. E. Celebes (Beccari 2); 
Is.' (illT cTlf J4)°^ Weber 72); Indrulaman (Everett 15); Peling and Banggai 
withn,u'’'i mentions also the Sula Islands as a locality for this species, 
Witliout, however, referring to specimens. 
Jovo Cuckoo-shrike is most like L. terat of the Philippines, Borneo, 
mav’rp Peninsula and Nicobars (Sharpe 5), a species which 
and distinguished from the Celebes form by its having the rump 
thim tail-coverts grey instead of white. Specimens from Mindanao may 
occurs 1 ^ >vhich also 
its havin'! ^ 1 "PP®^- tail-coverts, by 
over extending from the nostril and lores 
to over th ^•'^tead of a broad superciliary stripe from the nostril and lores 
occurs fh" the white 
quilT!! T primaries, extending in the longer 
I black^T -Wle the free ends of the quL 
Tiiornent h!d tT tt looks as if a sharper separation of the 
L Z ^ ^ the black being condensed 
a n^^ie h !.bl" -"r ^his respect L^unorensis is 
its white ^ ^ spetia ized species than L. leucopyyialia and terat-, in respect of 
white lump A. kucopygiatis is more highly specialized than terat. 
L. leucopygialis is a common bird in North Celebes. It is very active, forms 
flocks. Its call being a protracted whistle or a loud chirping cry (Meyer f> . 
Ihe curious correspondence of the coloration of this species with Gra^x-a'as 
hcolor - sex with sex _ has already been noted under that species, ft has 
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