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* 149. PACHYCEPHALA BONTHAINA M.&Wg. 
Southern Fringilline Thick-head. 
Plate XIX. 
Pachycephala bonthaina ( 1 ) M. efe Wg., Abh Mas. Dresden 1896, Nr. 2, p. 10; ( 2 ] Hart 
>iov. Zool. 1896, 149, 155; ( 3 ) id., ib. 1897, 158. ’’ 
Descriptions. M. & Wg. I; Hartert 2. 
Adult male. Head greenish yellow-oHve, brighter on the ear-coverts and superciliary region- 
lores duskier; neck mantle, upper back, wings, tail, and body below brownish 
slate-grey, darker above, paler below, washed with olive on the wings and breast 
more strongly on the chin and throat; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts! 
sides, and flanks yellow-olive hke the head, brighter on the flanks, washed with 
browmsh ochraceous on the under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and re- 
miges where they rest upon the body pale cinnamon: “iris scarlet; bill black- 
feet blacldsh” — Doherty 2 (o^, type, Wawo Karaeng Mt., S. Oel., above 2000 m’ 
29. X. 95: Sarasin CoU.). 
Female. Like the male, but the chin and throat olive-slaty, streaked with pale buff; some 
u e gmgs to the feathers of the forehead: “iris cheny-red” (Q co-type, Lompo- 
batangMt., c. 2400 m, 6. IX. 95: Sarasin Coll). 
mmature male. The whole upper side washed with olive, the whole under side striped with 
pale browmsh buff, the head and nock ohve-brown (Hartert 2 ] 
*2-23; bill ta nostril 8. 
utiibnuon. Bontliain Monnteans, S. Oolebes (P. & R Sarasin 1 , Everett 3, Doherty 3). 
on the'pe 'i"'’"’* "“'y elevations, 6000 ft, and upwards 
on the Peak of Bonthain and the adjacent heights. Apart from the next 
k r. of ‘te Gorontalo Province, N. Celebes — with 
which It may ultimately prove to be identical, though more probably not so - 
It seems to have no near allies; its coloration is peculiar and its bill small, 
though Pach^cepMtne m sti-ueture. Its genei-al appearance is Finch-like. 
* 160. PACHYCEPHALA BONENSIS M.&Wg. 
Northern Fringilline Thick-head. 
Plate XVIII. 
Pachycphala -...nri. W K * Wg., Abb. Mas. Dresden »r. 4. p. 2; ( 2 , iid, ib, 1890, 
. ■ L Hart., Nov. Zool 1896, 155. 
secondurieTTb!!!*^ yehow-ohve, including the wing-coverts and outer edges of the 
and lip-nl- 1 -1 a, primaries greyer, passing into browner olive on mantle, neck 
the featliPrs-^^ throat cinnamon, with grey-hrown middles to 
vpllnw nV ’ grey-brown, washed with cinnamon on abdomen, passing into 
upon the hodv cinnamon, a little paler on remiges where they lie 
ToT tv^. the latter elsewhere dusly: legs brown, claws paler; “iris brown” 
(§ ?, type Bone Mts. c. 1000 m, 15. Jan. 1894: Sarasin Coll). 
Measurements. Wmg 81 mm; tail 63; tarsus 22; bill from nostril 7, culmen 14 
Distribution. Bone Mountains, North Celebes (P. & F. Sarasin). 
Meyer & Wigleeworth, Birds of Celebes (Not. 5th, I897). 
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