Birds of Celebes; Timeliidae. 
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GENUS MALIA Schl. 
A genus peculiar to the mountains of Celebes, a large form, equal to a 
large Thrush in size, with olive and yellow for its chief colours. It has the 
habit of clinging to tree-stems like a Woodpecker and feeds on insects (P. & F. 
Sarasin). 
Its most peculiar characters are its graduated, slightly decurved tail of 
12 feathers, about equal to the wing in length, the outermost feathers about 
3 cm shorter; its large legs and feet, the tarsus exceeding the middle toe and 
claw in length; the almost complete absence of rictal bristles. These characters 
serve to remove it far from Criniger and lole. The bill and nostril are much 
like those of Me, but the tomia are not roughly serrated and the tip is less bent 
down and has a slighter denticulation. The wing is very blunt, the tip, with 
the — 7*’* quills the longest, exceeding the secondaries and primary by 
about 1 cm only; primary more than half the wing-length. The remiges 
are much curved, so as to fit the body. 
* 203. MALIA GRATA Schl. 
Mountain Bulbul. 
Plate XXXIII. 
The birds of the mountains of North Celebes, of which the two in the 
Sarasin Collection are before us, differ from those of the Bonthain Mountains, 
judging from four examples, in that, when adult, they develop pure lemon- 
yellow on the abdomen, whereas it is ochraceous yellow (being more affected 
by the olive of the sides) in the southern form. All the other supposed grounds, 
whereon we founded a species for the northern bird, M. recondita, have been 
thoroughly exploded by Mr. Hartert, who has thereby spared us trouble by 
doing well what we intended to do ourselves. The northern bird may for the 
present be admitted as a subspecies, M. grata recondita, and in this article the 
southern biids are termed the typical M. grata, though it unfortunately is not 
known whether the type came from S. Celebes or from Saleyer. 
1. The typical Malia grata. 
a. Malia grata (1) Schl, Notes Leyd. Mus. 1880, n, 165; (2) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 127; (3) 
Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, 1883, 587; (4) id., Notes Leyden Mus. 1884, VI, 175; (5) 
Hart., Nov. ZooL 1896, 255; (6) id., ib. 1897, 159. 
Diagnosis. The yellow on the mesial parts of the body below ochraceous yellow, clearing 
into pure lemon-yellow only on the throat. 
Male. Above ohve-green, darker and browner on the tail and wings, brighter and yellower 
on the mantle and head; below yellower, clearing into pure lemon-yellow on the 
throat, yellow sHghtly stained with olivaceous on the breast and abdomen, passing 
into yellow olive-green on the sides, browner olive-green on the flanks, thighs, crissum 
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