Birds of Celebes: Meliphagidae. 
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ceous; sides, abdomen and under tail-coverts greyish brown, -washed with fid- 
vous; under wing-coverts and inner edging of quills white, (cf, Rurukan Miiia- 
hassa, 1-1. Vm. 84: Platen in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 952). Tris brown; hill black; 
feet grey (Platen). 
Female. Smaller than the male. Above olive-brown, rather brighter on the forehead and 
rump; wings and tail blackish, with warm brown margins to the feathers; chin and 
ear-coverts brown, touched up with scarlet; throat drab-brown, becoming darker 
and more olivaceous on the breast, and paling into brownish buff on the remaining 
undei-parts; under wing-coverts and basal part of inner webs of quills white. 
(9) Rurukan, 25. IX. 94: Sarasin Coll.) 
“Legs and feet grey, the latter below yellowish; bill black, base of lower man- 
dible yellow; iris dark” (P. &P. S.). 
Remark. A specimen in adult male dress, but labelled as a female, is described by 
Salvadori (4) who believes the sex indicated to rest upon an error; and the same 
seems to be the case with the bird described as a female by Briiggemann, a 
specimen in nearly adult male dress. 
Young male. Like the female (cf, Djampea, XII. 95: Everett — 0 15149). 
Measurements. 
a. (Mus. Nehrk. Nr. 952) cf ad. Rurukan 
h. (Mus. Nehrk. Nr. 953) [Q] Rurukan . 
c. (Nr. 1974) [cf] ad. Minahassa . . . . 
d. (C 418) [cf] ad. Manado, III. 71 . . . 
AVing 
Tail 
1 Bill from 
Tarsus! feath. of 
' forehead 
54 
37 
13 
14 
51 
38 
14 
13 
57 
' 37 
14 
— 
59 
40 
15 
— 
Three additional adult males from the Minahassa in the Sarasin Coll, have 
the wing 56 — 57 mm; two females, wing 52, 53, one .Oid. Loka, S. Cel. (Sarasin 
Coll.) wing 56; one cf ad. Saleyer Id. (Ev. C 15147) wing 55; one 9, Saleyer, wing 52. 
Varis-tion. From 06lGbGS two of tlio adult malGs in tliG Sarasin OollGction in good 
fi-esh plumage (March) have the wing-coverts, scaimlars and tail sooty blackish, a little 
browner' in the one than in the other . The thu d male, pt obably less adrrlt, but also 
itr more w'orn plrrrnage (October), has the wing-coverts, scapulars arrd tail brow'ner. 
Another adrrlt male (0 418) in worn plumage (March) is more sooty than the last. 
South Celebes. The adult male in the Sarasin Collection is in sbghtly worn 
phrmage (Loka, October). The colour of the wirrg-coverts, scapulars and tail cannot 
be termed sooty, but dull dark sepia. 
Saleyer. A male in good phrmage (Nov.) is slightly sooty arrd a shade darker 
than the above South Celebes male on the parts in question, and about as dark as 
the palest example from North Celebes. A female rn worn plumage (Nov.) is much 
paler and greyer above and paler below than two females from N. Celebes. 
Djampea. A young male in charrging plumage (Dec.) is very much darker 
above, being darker than the females from N. Celebes. 
Distribution. Celebes and the islands to the south: Mrnahassa (Meyer 1, 7, Bruijn 4, 
Eischer a. Platen, Sarasins R); S. Peninsula — Bontharn Mts. (Weber 10, 
Everett 12, Sarasins, Doherty 7.3); Saleyer and Djampea (Everett 12). 
This Honey-sucker has as yet been found only at the two extreme ends 
of the Island of Celebes; it was discovered by Meyer in the Minahassa in the 
north, in which district only a small number of specimens have been obtained, 
and now recently it has turned up at Loka near Bonthain at the extremity of 
