Birds of Celebes: Sectariniidae. 
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hv narrow maroon-brown cross-bar which is somewhat paler than in C asiatieus-, 
breast flanks, abdomen ami under tail-coyerts black with a purphsh gloss; 
rector’al tufts bright yellow without any trace of orange.red;_ under w,ng-coverts 
and thi-hs dusky black; bill of the same size as in C. asiaticus ‘And C %em>bm but 
r^er le^ss strong bent, black; feet black. Wing 53 mm; tail 35; tarsus 15, bill 
Female ^^Grejd^ oL^aW,^washed with green on the rump and the margins of ^mlls 
Female. ^rejns ’ j ,,,, the eye. Beneath lemon-yellow, paler m younger 
Mrlf atd awrpaler on the throat and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts 
and inner lining^ ot wing whitish. Outer rectrices broadly tipped with white, these 
Ss toing !n extent" towards the middle, so that the centre ones are only narrow y 
fringed with white on the tip. Wing about 2 or 3 mm shorter than in the ma 
I.i.Wb..S'.''Dirpea'a„d&1.0 (Everett « P), PBon.rat. (Saraeins i t), ?Se«tlr Oelcbee 
(Teiismann u f). 
ThouKh the type of this speoiee was indicated ae having come from the 
Macassar District, it appears more probahle that -an n ohtarned rt m 
Saleyer, though indeed the bird was not sent there by Mr. A. Everett. As 
^'"”“ft°aTOe's''””tr the colour of the under-surface, very much with C. asiatkas, 
only the maroon-brown bar across the chest is somewhat paler, the abdomen 
^ .1 t. rv loco tsivnnolv slossed With purple and the orange-red 
anrl under tail-coverts are less stiongiy e i 
. X, r. ore wanting. But the bird ca,nnot he an immature 
trrno ::1 oV::; rrretaUic gmss on its upper-surface while 
the lower' ’surface entirely presents the metallic plumage of the fully adult stage. 
In the transitional stages of C. miutkm the upper-surface which is much paler 
than in our Celebean bird, always shows strong marks of metallie blue, especi- 
ally ou rump and lesser wing-coverts, long before the lower-surface has assumed 
its fnU metallic plumage. This bird is rather to be placed in Capt Shelleys 
Cvrloslmus or olive-backed Asiatic group, m which the green-backed C. zernbrn 
from the Moluccas would he its nearest ally. , . i 
We sheuld say that this bird forms an approach to the Celebesian members 
of the Hermotima-grouf, as shown by its having a submalar stripe of a different 
tint from the throat, and yellow pectoral tufts, which sometimes make then- 
appearance to a small extent in adult males of H. sar^ens. rn Siao. 
GENUS HERMOTIMIA Echb. 
The black Sun-birds are best distinguished by their having the operculum 
ot the nostril feathered, and by their gener-al colour of black, with metallrc 
hues ot gold, purple, etc. on the head, chin, throat, mmp, upper tail-coverts 
and tail, and more or less on the lower back and wing cover s. e tai is 
moderate, shorter than the wing, rounded or gindnated. The species are chiefly 
Papuasian, Moluccan and Celebesian, but Chalcostetim which ranges from the 
Sunda Islands to Tenasserim is hardly separable as a genus. 
