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Birds of Celebes: Meliphagidae. 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (C 15690) c^, G. Manimporok c. 1200 m 
86 
70 
20.5 
19 
b. (Sarasin Coll.) Q, tyiDC, Bone Mts. 1100 m. . . . 
77 
66 
19.5 
18 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) §, G. Mantinang, 1500 m .... 
74 
63 
18 
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Distribution. Mountains of North Celebes: Gunong Manimporok in .the Minahassa, Bone 
Mts. in the Gorontalo District, and Gunong Mantinang near Buol (P. & F. S.). 
2. Melilestes celebensis meridionalis M. &Wg, 
c. Melilestes celebensis meridionalis (1) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 11; (2) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 153; (3) id., ib. 1897, 157. 
Diagnosis. Darker; dark greyish olive above, with black centre-streaks; below greyish sepia, 
with the light margins of the feathers less pale and distinct. “Iris dusky brown; 
bare orbital skin white” (P. & F. S.). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) (^, type, western declivity of the Peak 
of Bonthain ca. 1 500 m, 2. XI. 95 
85 
73 
21.5 
19 
h. (Sarasin Coll) Q, ibid 
82 
71 
20 
18 
c. (Sarasin CoU.) ? juv., ibid 
74 
63 
18 
16.5 
d. (C 14888) (^, Bonthain Pealq 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (Everett) 
85 
71 
20.5 
19.5 
e. (C 14889) 2) Bonthain Peak, 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (Everett) 
78 
65 
19 
18 
Distribution. South Celebes — Bonthain Mountains (P. & F. Sarasin cl, Everett c 2, 
Doherty c 5). 
This mountain-haunting Honey-eater was one of the most interesting of the 
discoveries of the Saras ins in Celebes. Its nearest affinities seem to be with 
Melilestes megarhynchus of New Guinea and the neighbouring islands, a species 
of somewhat similar, but more uniform brown, coloration, with a much larger 
bill, similarly serrated (the serrations being more perfect in some specimens 
than in others), with the nasal operculum narrower at the base, and the frontal 
feathers not encroaching upon it. The foot and tarsus is, as Hartert points 
out, smaller and more delicate in the Celebes form, the tarsus is indeed about 
Y .1 the length of the wing and longer than the middle toe, while in Melilestes 
megarhynchus the tarsus is about Vio longer and equal to the middle toe ; the space 
of bare skin behind and above the eye is also peculiar to the Celebes form. 
Still, it appears to us to stand as near (or nearer) to the typical Melilestes as 
does M. iliolophus and its allies, and it would be disadvantageous to bury its 
affinities under a new generic name. 
GENUS MYZA 
Bill longer than the cranium, the tomia not serrated, but slightly turned 
inwards, a slight subterminal notch; the nostril linear, with an operculum, on 
the basal part of which the feathers of the forehead impinge; behind the eye 
