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Birds of Celebes; Laniidae. 
The only specimen as yet known of this species was obtained by the 
Sara sins during their journey from Gorontalo up the valley of the Bone into 
the mountains where that river finds its source; it is unfortunately most likely 
a female and seems to be young, so that it is not possible to state with abso- 
lute certainly that the birds inhabiting the southern mountains, P. honthaina, are 
distinct from it. It is improbable, however, that the wings would change colour 
much in adult birds, and they are dark greenish yellow-olive in P. homnsis, and 
dark slate-grey with a wash of olive in P. honthaina. Other differences are: 
the chin and throat streaked with slaty brown, with broad cinnamon edges to 
the feathers in P. honensis, with light biiff edges in P. honthaina-, the mantle 
washed with the yellow-olive of the lower back in P. honensis, but dark brownish 
slaty in P honthaina. But, as Mr. Hartert has shown, the young P honthaina 
has the whole upper surface washed with olive, and the head and neck 
olive-brown. 
GENUS COLLURICINCLA Yig. Horsf. 
Culmen about as long as the cranium, bill across the nostril narrower than 
high, nostril roundish, not ossified posteriorly — partially concealed by feathers 
and bristles ; tail square ; tarsus rather large, scutellated ; second primary longer 
.than the secondaries. Occurring in Australia; New Guinea: Sangi. 
* 151. COLLURICINCLA SANGIRENSIS (Oust.). 
Sangi Shrike-thrush. 
a. Pinarolestes sanghirensis (1) Oust., Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris (7) V, 1881, 71; (2) Echw. 
& Schalow, .T. f. O. 1884, 400; (,H) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, .584. 
Descriptions. Oustalet a I', Ecliw. & Sclialow n, 2. 
Male and female. Above obve-brovn; wing-coverts and lower back reddish brown; 
tail-feathers above deep brown, below clearer brown ; under-parts brownish, pass- 
ing into greenish yellow at the flanks; bill (in dry skin) pale brown toAvards base of 
loAver mandible, the rest black; feet blackish hrown. Wing 98 — 100 mm; tail 82; 
bill 18 — 19 (Oust, n 1). 
Distribution. Great Sangi — Petta (Mus. Paris a 1). 
The two specimens, indicated as male and female, in the Paris Museum 
are found by Dr. Oustalet to have affinities wdth Colluricincla megarhyncha 
(Q. & G.) of New Guinea and some of the neighbouring islands, but still closer 
resemblance to C. (Meyer) of Mysore. From the former, C.sangi- 
rensis differs in the colour and form of its bill, and seems to be a little larger 
than average specimens of that species. C. melanonhyncha is distinguishable from 
the Sangi form by its uniform black bill, paler feet, the green reflections of the 
upper surface most strongly pronounced upon the nape, the forehead streaked 
with yellowish, the external edgings of the quills yellowish red, rather than 
