Birds of Celebes: Dicaeidae. 
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Young male. Not a trace of red on tliroat and breast; under surface grey, with greenish 
yellow intermixed; above, uniform dark grey; tail and wing-feathers with some metallic 
gloss (W. Blasius 6’). 
Female. A female is described by Salvadori as follows: above ashy bluish, slightly glossy; 
wings, upper tail-coverts and tail darker, nearly black; middle of under surface from 
cliin to crissum whitish, slightly yellowish, sides of body greyish slightly ohvescent; 
under tail-coverts w'hite, dusky in the middle. 
Prof. W. Blasius mforms us that this description of the female does not corre- 
spond with the two females sent by Dr. Platen from Great Sangi. '•'■Dicaeum 
sanghirmse $ ad. and distinguishable from one another in very inappreci- 
able respects only, judging from the examples collected by Platen and submitted to 
me. The description of a female by Salvadori seems to me also to have reference 
to a young example” (in lit.). 
Measurements. 
j Wing I Tail 
Bill from 
nostril 
Tarsus 
a. (C 1050) [(^] ad., Tabukan. Gt. Sangi I 49 j 28 i 6 12 
h. (0 515) [cf] imm., Tabukan, Gt. Sangi 50 ' 28 | 6 12 
The smallest and largest specimens of 11 adults recorded by W. Blasius differ 
as follows: wing 47, 51 ; tail 27, 29; culmen 9, 9 (in two others 9.5); tarsus 11, 12. 
Distribution. Great Sangi (Bruijn 7, Meyer in Dresd. Mus., Platen 6). 
The Dicaeum of Sangi has its nearest known affinities in D. talautense, 
celehicum and sulaense. It may be distinguished, as Count Salvadori has shown, 
from D. celehicum by the glossy blue black, not blackish violaceous, of its upper 
surface, and by its white belly and under tail-coverts, the former scarcely tinged 
with yellow. From D. sulaense it is separable, as Dr. Sharpe shows, by its 
^•sty, not olive, sides. It is smaller than D. talautense, and has the sides less 
dark grey, the flanks whitish. 
-D. sangirense, celehicum, talautense and sulaense, of the Celebes Province form 
with D.monticola Sharpe of Kini Balu, Borneo, a very closely connected little 
group. Bather further removed are Dicaeum hirundinaceum (Shaw & Nodder) 
of Australia, and its allies, and D . sanguinolentum Temm. of Java, and the female 
of the latter has the peculiarity of having the upper tail-coverts scarlet. Another 
section, consisting of D. macMoti M. & S. of Timor and D. salvadorii Meyer of 
Babbar Island betw^een Timor and Timorlaut, and D. splendidtm Bilttik. of 
Saleyer, Djampea and ? S. Celebes have the rump and upper tail-coverts scarlet 
in the male, and in the first and last species (the female of D. salvadorii is not 
yet known) in the female also. If the female of D. sanguinolentum be supposed 
to display a lower stage than the male in the evolution of the race, this species 
should formerly have resembled D. mackloti. 
173. DICAEUM TALAUTENSE M.&Wg. 
Talaut Red-throated Flower-pecker. 
Dicaeum talautense (1) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 9, p. 5. 
“Tete marundang” or “Tete apiapi”, Karkellang, Nat. Coll. 
