Birds of Celebes: Neotariniidae. 
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— Tulabello (Eosenb. b 5); West Celebes (Doherty 13)\ S. E. Central Celebes 
(P. & F. Sarasin); 8. E. Peninsula — Kandari (Beccari 4, f I)] South Peninsula — 
Tndrulaman (Everett 12]. 
This Sun-bird was discovered by Mr. Wallace in the forest district near 
Lake Tondano at an altitude of about 1500 feet. Meyer got it near the same 
place twelve years later, and five specimens, also killed in the same neigbour- 
hood, were recently sent to the Dresden Museum by our native hunters, w'hile 
Platen obtained it at a greater altitude at Ilurukan, and the Sarasins got it 
there, as well as on Mt. Masarang at 1250 metres. They also found it near 
the great lakes of South-east Central Celebes, Towuti and Matanna. Everett 
sent one from the foot-hills of Mt. Bonthain. It seems to belong to the hill- 
forests, and we question if the locality “Manado” of the specimens in the British 
Museum is correct. 
Aethopyga flavostriata is one of a group — the typical Aethopyga-^xo\yp — 
with red backs, red breasts, and a yellow band across the rump, consisting of 
the following geographical species: 
Name of species 
Central India 
Himalayas 
Upper Burmah 
Pegu 
Tenasserim 
Nicobars 
Malay Penins. 
Sumatra 
Billiton 
1 
Borneo 
Negros, Cebu 
Celebes 
1. 
Ae. vigorsi (Sykes) . . . . 
* 
2. 
Ae. sekeriae (Tick.) . . . 
* 
3. 
Ae, andersoni Oates . . . 
* 
4. 
Ae. car a Hume 
* 
5. 
Ae. nieobarim Hume . . . 
* 
6. 
Ae. siparaja (Efl.) .... 
* 
* 
* 
* 
>k 
7. 
Ae. temmimki (S. M.) . . . 
* 
* 
8. 
Ae. mgstacalis (T.) . • ■ ■ 
' 
* 
9. 
Ae. magnifica Sb 
. 
10. 
* 
The Celebesian Ae. flavostriata occupies, as Shelley shows, an intermediate 
position between Ae. magnifica and Ae. siparaja, being distinguishable from both 
by its yellow-striped throat and further from Ae. magnifica by its dusky olive, 
not black, abdomen and under tail-coverts, and by the same characters from 
Ae. siparaja in which they are “ashy brown, often tinted with olive” (Shelley V). 
The yellow-streaked throat occurs again in Ae. mgstacalis of Java and Ae. vigor si 
of India which are easily distinguished from it by their lengthened middle tail- 
feathers and other characters. 
This section of the genus Aethopyga lends further support to Mr. Wallace’s 
view of the recent separation of Borneo from Sumatra and Asia as shown by two 
species (one occurring indeed in Java and elsewhere), which display no appre- 
