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Birds of Celebes: Dicaeidae. 
Description. Sliarjje 2. 
Diagnosis. Like D. celebieum, but the sides of the body olivaceous greeu, instead of dusky 
grey with a ■wash of ohve; the flanks brighter with a yellowish olive wash. The violet 
gloss on the upper parts seems to be duller ([o’] Banggai Id., V.— VTTT 95: 0 14666). 
The fresh skins from Banggai struck us as having a much more violet upper 
surface than D. celebkum. It is perhaps not quite correct to say it is violet, but 
there is decidedly a difference of tint. 
Young. Olivaceous green above, as against grey olive in D. celeUeivm juv., wing-coverts and 
quills edged with the same coloui'; below chiefly buff-whitish, becoming yellowish ohve 
as in the adult male on the flanks, face and sides of breast greyer (Banggai, 0 14669). 
Measurements. Wing 47 (juv. g ?), 51—53 mm ((j’ ad.); tail ca. 29; tarsus ca. 12; bill from 
nostril ca. 7. 
Distribution. Sula Islands (Allen a 1, 2); Banggai Id. (Nat. Coll. 6). 
The type-specimen of these species was obtained by Wallace’s assistant, 
Allen, in Sula Besi or Sula Mangoli; it is in the British Museum, and remained 
the only example on record until the end of 1895, when a small series from 
Banggai obtained by our native hunters reached the Dresden Museum ; some of 
them are now in the Tring Museum. 
Dr. Sharpe mentions its close affinity to D. monticola of Kini Balu, Borneo, 
a species which may be distinguished from D. celebicum by its olive-green flanks, 
and from both D. celebicum and sulaense by its steel-blue-black back. D. sangirense 
and talawtense also stand near, but have grey sides. 
* 172. DICAEUM SANGIRENSE Salvad. 
Sangi Ked-throated Flower-pecker. 
Plate XXV. 
Dicaeum sanghirense {1} Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. IX, 1876, 58; (2) Meyer, Isis, 
Dresden 1884, 6; (3) Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1883, 579; (4) id.. Oat. B. X, 1885, 24; 
(5) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1885, 292; (6) id., Ornis 1888, 590; (7) M. & Wg., 
Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Xr. 9, p. 5. 
Descriptions. Salvador! i; Sharpe 4\ W. Blasius 6' (young male and measurements). 
Adult [male]. Above, including face and submalar region, metallic hyacinth-blue-black, 
quills and ear-coverts dusky; chin wliitish; throat and jugulum scarlet; sides 
smoky slate-grey, darkest on sides of neck; abdomen, middle of breast and under 
tail-coverts wliite, the last with some central streaks or spots of grey; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries wliite; metacarpal edge blackish; bill black, base 
of lower mandible whitish; legs and feet blackish (Great Sangi [i^ according to the 
hunter’s mark] — 0 1050). 
Immature. A younger specimen has the upper plumage mixed, old feathers of slate-grey and 
new ones of metallic blue-black hke the adult, the blue-black being predominant on 
the forehead, mantle, and scapulars, the grey on the neck, lower back and greater 
wdng-coverts; on the crown, other vdng-coverts and ujiper tail-coverts the grey and 
blue-black feathers are a good deal mixed. The scarlet of the throat less extended 
and less brilliant than in the adult; the middle of breast and abdomen washed -with 
fulvous (Great Sangi [(^ according to the hunters’ mark) — C 515). 
