Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 
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Beseriptions. Walden a 1\ Shai’pe a 6. 
Adult male. Above, including ear-coverts and cheeks rich olive-yellow, lighter on lower 
back, rump and upper tail-coverts, which are washed with orange; a slight tinge of 
orange on mantle and back; the median and greater wing-coverts narrowly edged 
externally with brighter yellow than the back; quills dai’k brown, externally bright 
olive-yellow tinged with orange; tail-feathers dark ohve-yellow; the centre ones 
washed TOth orange, ah the rectiices tipped with bright yellow, narrowly on the 
centre ones, this colour extenchng also along the inner web of the feathers for nearly 
the entire length, excejjting on the centre ones; lores yellow; throat and under-sur- 
face rich golden yellow inclining to orange; under tail-coverts rich orange-yellow; 
fore neck and sides of breast washed with olive; under wing-coverts and axil- 
laries golden yellow; quills below dusky brown, yellow along the edge of the inner 
web (from Sharpe 6). 
Measurements. Wing 124 mm; tail 118; bill from nostril 16; tarsus 19 (Walden a 1). 
Bistribution. Togian (Meyer a 1, a 4, a 9). 
This species is known by a single sjaecimen which was found by Meyer 
in August 1871 on the highest point of the chief island of the Togian Group 
in the Gulf of Tomini. Its nearest affinities are with I. longirostris W all. of 
Sula and I. platenae W. Bias, of Great Sangi, while 1. afftnis Homhr. & Jacq. 
from Ceram and Amhoina differs chiefly in having the tail more broadly tipped 
with yellow than in the three forms of the Celebesian area. I. aurea differs from 
I. longirostris, according to Walden, by being somewhat smaller, by having a 
much shorter bill, and by the bright golden colouring of its plumage. The 
orange tint of its under surface likewise serves to distinguish it from I. platenae, 
which is bright yellow below. 
The presence of lole, or as it has there been termed Criniger, in the island-groups 
round Celebes and its apparent absence on the mainland has been commented 
upon with some surprise by Mr. Wallace (Geogr. Distr. 1876, I, 431) and Prof. 
W. Blasius (Ornis 1888, 596), yet we have very little doubt but that it will ulti- 
mately be found in Celebes. The small Province of the Minahassa and the neigh- 
bourhood of Gorontalo and of Macassar alone have as yet been investigated with 
some care, but even here a number of new birds have been discovered in the 
last few years, and a much larger number doubtless remains to be found in the 
centre of the island, in the East and South-east Peninsulas, as also on the west 
coast and in the high mountain regions, judging from the results obtained there 
by the most recent collectors. 
* 201. lOLE LONGIROSTRIS (Wall.). 
Sula Bulbul. 
a. Criniger longirostris (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 339; (2) Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, 6; (3) 
Gray, HL. 1869, I, 274, Nr. 4019; (4) Wald., Ann. and Mag. N. H. 1872, (4) 
IX, 400; (4^*^) Salvad., Om. Pap. 11, 1881, 375; (5) Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, 1881, 87; 
fe/w. Bias., Ornis 1888, 596; (7) M. & Wg., Ahh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 2. p. Xl. 
h. Trichophorus longirostris (1) Pinsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 168. 
Meyer & WiglcEWOrth, Birds of Celebes (Nov. 12tli, 1807). 
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