Birds of Celebes : Dicaeidae. 
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GENUS DICAEUM Cuv. 
Nine primaries; bill as long as the cranium, tapering and pointed, broad 
at the base; tarsus stout, longer than the toes, the hallux about as long as the 
middle toe. Sexes dissimilar, the males more or less glossy and resplendent, 
the females plain, the young much like the females. Nest suspended from a 
twig, pear-shaped, the entrance at the side; eggs white. 
The genus belongs to the Indo-Australian area. 
Two genera of Dicaeidae are found in the Celebesian area. Dicaeum itself 
ranges from Inrha and South China to Australia, where only one species occurs 
while about seven are found in British India. There are seven in Celebes and 
the neighbouring islands, belonging to 2 or 3 well marked divisions of the 
genus. Four are local forms closely related to one another and to a species 
mhabiting Kini Balu Mountain, Borneo, a second form (D. nekrkomi) is apparently 
intermediate between a group ranging from the Great Sunda Islands to India 
and S. China and a group found in New Guhiea; a third form (D. splendidum) 
has Its nearest affimties in the Timor group. It is doubtful whether the species 
ave anything to say on the former disposition of land and water about Celebes. 
Acmonorhpnchus, a genus occurring interruptedly in Ceylon, one of the Phi- 
lippines, Great Sangi, Celebes and Flores, displays some indications of descent 
from Pachyglossa of the Himalayas, a form which seems to have emigrated and 
reached the Celebes area and Flores at some distant period, Ceylon more 
* 170. DICAEUM CELEBICUM S.Miill. 
Celebes Bed-throated Flower-pecker. 
Plate XXV. 
Bicaeuni celebieum ri; Ooimn. 1839-44, 162; Gray, Gen. B. 
J-rr-TT- n ( ) Grray, HL. I, 1869, 115, Nr. 1422* (81 Wald Tr 7 9 ift 79 
Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, QU; fioj Briiggem ’ 
Bri mg' fsTlTe G5’j W B^^ 1878, 272; (12) Meyer’, 
.578- ajj’id Cot B S .o'"';’ S. 1883, 
Guillem., P.Z.S. 1885, 554; (16) W. Bias 
Ztec^. SO- On. 1885, 291; (17) Sharpe, Ibie 1889, 423; (mj h;!„o & Bchw’ 
E'S- Weber’s Eeise Ost-lnd’ 
S ™’i 
l»yb, iNr. 1 , p. 5, (22) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (23) id., ib 1897 155 
a. BIcaeum leelaneherl (IJ Lafr.. Eer. Zool. 1845 , 94; 1846 , 42; (2) Harth.’ib, 1846, 4, 
“Burung tjui dada mera”, Malay name, Minabassa, Nat. Coll. 
Beseriptions. 8. Muller 7; Beicbenbach 4; Sharpe 15; W. Blasius 16. 
Meyer & Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (Nov. Otb 1897). 
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