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Birds of Celebes: Dicaeidae. 
Adnlt male. Like D. sangireme o’, but larger’; breast and sides of body dusky olive-slate- 
grey, a stripe of glossy violet-black down the middle of the breast (in fully adult 
birds onlyj; abdomen yellowish white, flanks ohve-slate-grey ; under tail-coverts white, 
with broad olive-black centres (Karkellang, Talaut, autumn, 1896, C 15371). 
Female? Above olive-slate-grey, rvith a slight gloss of violet on the mantle and head, a wash 
of yellowish on the rump; wings and tail black, glossed with violet, the wings with 
edgings to the feathers of the colour of the back; under parts chiefly yellowish 
olivaceous, greyer on sides of breast and face, along the mesial region of the throat 
and body pale yellowish; under wing-coverts white with some darker shaft-streaks 
(Karkellang, 0 15374). 
Young [male] . The basal half of the bill yellow ; like the female, but the entire under parts 
yellowish olivaceous, except a little yellowish on the abdomen, and no violet gloss on 
the head or mantle (Karkellang: 0 15372). 
Measurements. Wing (females) 48 — 50 mm; (males) 51 — 56; tail ca. 27—28; tarsus ca. 13; 
bill from nostril ca. 7 — 7.5. 
Distribution. Talaut Islands — Karkellang (Nat. Coll.). 
This species is known only from the largest island of the Talaut group, 
where a small series was obtained by our native hunters in November, 1893, 
and a very good series in autumn, 1896. As a rule the geographical races 
of Sangi are slightly larger than those of Talaut, but in the present case this 
condition is reversed, for D. talautense is a little larger than D. mngirense, and 
it is also more darkly coloured, as are indeed Orioliis melanisticus, Pitta inspecu- 
lata and Edoliisoma talautense of Talaut. 
* 174. DICAEUM SPLENDIDUM Biitt. 
Saleyer Flower-pecker. 
Dicaeum splendidum (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 180; (2) Hart., Nov. Zool. 
1896, 167, 182, 256. 
Adult male. Entire head, hind neck and sides of neck, mantle, back and wing- 
coverts steel-blue-black, the latter somewhat glossed with purplish; rump and 
upper tail-coverts scarlet; tail-feathers glossy steel-blue; chin white; throat 
and fore-neck scarlet, encircled by a dull black stripe, beginning as a moustachial 
streak, running down along the sides of the neck and forming a rather broad black 
band across the chest, continued along the middle of the breast as a black stripe; 
breast, flanks, abdomen, thighs, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts 
creamy-white; edge of wing dull black; bill and feet black (Biittikofer). Wing 
52 mm; tail 27; tarsus 18; culmen 9 (Biittik. 1). 
“Iris dark brown; bill black; mandible grey, palest at base; feet and claws very 
dark grey, almost black” (Everett 2). 
Female. Above slaty olive; wings dusky glossed with bluish and edged ulth the colour- of 
the upper pai-ts; rump and upper tail-coverts impure flame-scarlet; below creamy 
white, grey on sides of breast, passing into the colour of the upper parts on sides 
of neck and face; under wing-coverts white, rectrices blacldsh; “basal portion 
of maxilla and two-thirds of mandible dull orange”: Everett ($, Djampea Id., Dec. 
1895: Everett — 0 14877). 
