500 
Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 
and under tail-coverts; supraloral region yellowish, the ear-coverts with yellow 
shafts; remiges and tail below ohve-brown; under wing-coverts and edge of 
wing yellower: “iris grey (two shades of brown, separated by a black hne — 
Doherty a 6'); bill yellow, above black; legs brown-yellow, soles yellow” ixf, Northern 
foot-hills of the Peak of Bonthain, c. 1050 m, 30. X. 95: Sarasin Ooll.). 
Female. Like the male. 
Young. The yellow of the under parts duller and more ochraceous, the head and mantle 
ohve-brownish without any yellow wash (Q juv., N. foot-hills of Mt. Bonthain, 
31. X. 95: P.&F. S.). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) Bonthain Mts. c. 1050 m, 30. X. 95 
135 
134 
46 
17 
h. (Sarasin Coll.) $ ad., Bonthain Mts. 1550 m, 30. X. 95 
132 
127 
45 
17 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) $ juv., Bonthain Mts. 1050 m, 31. X. 95 
129 
127 
45 
16.5 
d. (C 14880) o’, Bonth. Peak, 6000—9000 ft. Oct. 95 (Ev.) 
136 
130 
47 
17 
Distribution. South Celebes ~ Bonthain Mts. (Everett a 5, P. & F. Sarasin, Doherty a 6)\ 
South Celebes or Saleyer Island (Teijsmann a 1). 
The Drs. Sarasin supply the following notes on the habits of this bird: 
“Lives in small families; is not at all shy; has a lond piercing cry ‘zike’, and also 
a deep Blackbird-Hke cry; cUngs Woodpecker-like on tree-stems, as Malm grata 
recondita-, feeds on small organisms in rotten wood”. 
In describing the type of this remarkable species Schlegel only says, that 
“a single skin of this bird was contained in a large collection of birds made, 
in 1877, during an expedition to Macassar and the neighbouring isle of Saleyer, 
under the leading of the well-known botanical traveller, Mr. Teijsmann”. This 
is all that is known about the place where the type came from; whether it 
was killed in Saleyer or on the Southern Peninsula of Celebes may long remain 
in uncertainty. 
2. Malia grata recondita M.&Wg. 
h. Malia recondita (1) M. & Wg., Abh. u. Ber. Mus. Dresd. 1894/95, Nr. 4 p !• (2) iid ib 
Nr. 8, p. 12. > 1 . I / -, • 
Diagnosis. The yellow on the abdomen pure lemon-yellow, a little paler than that of the 
throat. 
Iris light brown; bill black, under mandible yellow; feet and legs grey-yellow” 
(P. & F. Sarasin). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) ad.. Hill-forest between the Minahassa 
and Mongondo, c. 1000 m, 30. XI. 93: type 
139 
130 
46 
17 
b. (Sarasin Coll.) Qad.,Gr.Mantinang, c. 1500m, 28.Vni.94 
130 
— 
43 
16.5 
Distribution. North Celebes, the mountain-forests as above (P. & F. Sarasin). 
The type specimen of this form of Malia was obtained by the cousins 
Sarasin in the Northern Peninsula of Celebes, during their difficult journey 
