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Birds of Celebes; Dicaeidae. 
Adult female. Above dark olive-slaty, tinged with brighter brown on the head; rump flame- 
scarlet like the male, tail a little duller; below whitish, sides of head and neck, 
sides, flanks, and a mesial stripe on the body below olive-grey, blending, where it 
meets, with the darker hue of the upper surface (Q, Indrulaman, S. Cel., Everett, 
0 14914). 
“Iris brown; bill black, base of mandible paler; feet bluish grey; claws blackish”(Ev..o). 
Young. Above like the adult female, but without scarlet on the rump — here olivaceous; 
below olive-grey, a greenish tinge on the flanks, only the mesial region yellowish white; 
gape and basal h,alf of lower mandible yellowish (Q juv., Loka, S. Cel., P. & F. S.). 
Measurements (6 adult males). Wing 40—53 mm; tail ca. 23; tarsus ca. 12; bill from nostril 
ca 6— S; (2 females) wing 44,45 mm. 
Variation. Males from North and South Celebes do not seem to differ in size, though vary- 
ing individually. The scarlet cap is hghter in some specimens than in others, but 
this difference also is not bound to the geographical locality. 
Distribution. Celebes: North Peninsula — Emnikan (Platen 1, 5,. P. & F. Sarasin 4); South 
Peninsula — Peak of Bonthain and the neighbouring hill-country (Everett 5, 
P. & F. Sarasin, Doherty 6], 
This pretty Flower-pecker will probably prove to be an inhabitant of all 
the moujitain districts of Celebes, since it is now known from the hills of the 
extreme north and south at heights of about 2000 — 6000 feet. 
We are indebted to Mr. Nehrkorn for the loan of the type of this species, 
which prior to 1894 was the only specimen on record’). Tt was found by 
Dr. Platen in company with D. celehicum among the orange and citron plantations 
of the mountain-village of Eurukan. 
The bird seems to belong to a well-marked species, intermediate between 
the c/'Mew^nfM/w-group of India and South China to the Great Sunda Islands, from 
which it may be distinguished by its black, not scarlet, back and scarlet on 
throat, and the riibrocorotmtum-^roxv^ of New Guinea, from which it is separable 
by its violet-black upper and white under tail-coverts. The small size of the 
scarlet spot on the throat is likely to give the impression that the bird is imma- 
ture, but this spot never seems to attain to a larger size. 
* 176. DICAEUM HOSEI Sharpe. 
Hose’s Flower-pecker. 
Lieaeum hosei Sharpe, Bull. Br. Orn. Club Nr. XLV, p. XLVin and Biis 1897, p. 449. 
Adult. Back in continuation writh the head, rump and upper tail-coverts red, a shade 
deeper than in D. ndirkom.i,, the black bases of the feathers on the back showing 
through; lores, superciliary region, face, chin, upper throat, sides of neck 
and of breast sooty black, becoming greyer and greener on the flanks; lower 
throat, mesial part of breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts buff; wing.s 
and tail above glossy blue-black; under wing-coverts pure white (o’, type, 
Mt. Masarang, N. Celebes: 4000 feet, October 1895: Hose). 
1) After tliis had gone to the press we leam fi-om Prof. W. Blasius’ 
(reo. Sept. 30*’* 1897) that Platen obtained five specimens, 3(Jd, 2 qq. 
“Neuer Beitrag z. K. Vogelf. Cel.' 
