476 Birds of 
Celebes; Nectariniidae. 
Skeleton. Length of cranimn . . . 
31.5 mm 
Length of tarso- metatarsus 
15.0 mm 
Greatest breadth of cranium 
12.0 * 
Length of digitus I . . . 
10.3 
Length of humeiTis . . . 
15.7 » 
Length of digitus II . . . 
9.0 
Length of ulna 
19.0 > 
Length of digitus HI . . 
13.0 
Length of radius .... 
17.0 . 
Length of digitus IV . . 
11.0 
Length of manus .... 
17.0 » 
Length of sternmn . . . 
16.7 
» 
Length of metacarpus . . 
9.0 » 
Greatest breadth of sternum 
9.5 
Length of digitus I . . . 
3.6 * 
Height of crista sterni . . 
5.6 
Length of digitus II . . . 
8.2 » 
Length of coracoideum . . 
15.0 
» 
Length of digitus 111 . . 
2.1 » 
Length of scapula .... 
16.0 
» 
Length of femur .... 
13.5 » 
Length of clavicula . . . 
14.0 
Length of tibia 
23.0 . 
Length of pelvis .... 
19.0 
» 
Length of fibula .... 
8.0 » 
Greatest breadth of pelvis . 
11.0 
> 
Eggs. “Dr. Platen sent me a sitting of two eggs 
of this bird from Eurukan in the 
Mina- 
hassa. They measure 18 X 13.5 mm. The ground-colotu’ is whity-grey, the ground- 
spots which are distributed over the whole egg are blue-grey. The few supei-jacent 
spots are deep black-brown, and amongst them are found a few fine hair-streaks. A 
circlet of spots is not present; so, too, there is no gloss. The eggs resemble those 
of A. malaccmsis in my collection from Borneo” (Nehrkorn MS.). 
Nest. Pour nests in the Dresden Museum belongmg to this subspecies much resemble those 
of the Celebesian Cyrtostomm frenaht.^, but have little or no caterpillar excrementa 
on the outside and are without feathers in any part. A pendant pear-shaped structure 
of strips of bark, bits of straw, dead leaf, grasses, the long down of seeds, held to- 
gether with grass-fibres and web of caterpillars or spiders, lined with finer grasses 
and seed-down or sometimes a little wool; length 115— 150 mm, breadth 60 — 75; no 
waste stuff hanging from the bottom; entrance at the side in the upper half, slightly 
hooded (Manado — Nrs. 131, 132, 129, 134). 
Distribution. Celebes and the islands off the coast, and Sula; Manado tua, Mantehage and 
Baidca (Nat. Coll, in Dresd. Mus.), Talissi (Hickson h 2), Minahassa (Wallace g 1, 
Meyer f 2, etc.), Gorontalo Distr. (Meyer f 2, Guillemard hi), W. Celebes (Do- 
herty 5), Togian (Meyer f 2], E. Peninsula (Ribbe and Nat. Coll, in Dresd. 
Mus.), Kandari, S. E. Peninsula (Beccari d 1), Buton Id. (S. Muller a 2), 8. Pen- 
insula (Wallace ^ i, Meyer f 2, Platen f 5, Guillem, hi, Weber f7, etc.), Sula 
Islands (Allen hi, f I, g 1), Peling and Banggai (Nat. Coll. 3). 
Observation. From Sula only a single female specimen in the British Museum has beeir 
definitely recorded [g 1). The Elores specimens, obtained by Wallace, Capt. 
Shelley remarks after the publication of his article on A. eelebensis, “I am now con- 
vinced should belong to this species” (Introd. p. XLV); their perfect identity with it 
appears to us, however, doubtful. Biittikofer (Notes L. M. 1892, 194, 201; Zool. Erg. 
Weber’s Reise HI, 300) does not unite his Elores and Sumba specimens with cefe- 
bettsis, but with malaccemis. Hartert identifies Smnba birds with those of Celebes, 
but not so Sumbawan birds. If they he midway between these two races, they may 
be indicated as A. malaccensis — eelebensis, or, if they represent a new line of de- 
parture, some other method of nomenclature must be found. 
Of the voice, habits etc. of A. eelebensis nothing pecuhar is known, and it is hardly 
likely that they differ much fi’om those of the typieal form. 
