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Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 
* 204. ANDROPHILUS OASTANEUS (Biitt.). 
Mountain Babbler. 
Plate XXXIV. 
a. Turdinus eastaneus (1) Biittik. , Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 261; (2) M. & Wg. Abli. 
Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 12. 
b. Drymocataphus eastaneus (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1895, XYH, 92. 
c. Androphilus everetti (1) Blart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 69, 151; (2) id., ib. 1897, 155. 
Descriptions. Biittikofer a 7; Hartert el. 
Adult male. Above, including the remiges and rectrices externally, chestnut-olive, a little 
duller and of a sbglitly squamous appearance on head and neck; face and breast 
mouse-grey, whiter on the abdomen, the ear-coverts with whitish shafts; chin and 
throat wliitish; supraloral and suiierciliary stripe whitish, posteriorly more 
mouse-gi-ey; lores dusky; sides of body and thighs chestnut-olive as above, but 
lighter; under tail-coverts a little paler; tail below olive-brownish; remiges 
below dusky; under wing-coverts olive-brown: “Bis chocolate-brown; bill black, 
base of mandible pale brown; legs and claws olive-brown” — Everett c 1 [cf, 
Tomohon, N. Cel., 28. IV. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
Remark. This specimen has been compared with the tyi)e of the species hy Mr. Blitti- 
kofer, who writes that the latter fully agrees with it, except that it has more wliite 
on the under surface, but the grey colour is making its appearance on the white 
spaces, and it seems to be a yoimger bird. 
Female. Like the male. “Unless some of the specimens are wrongly sexed, there is no 
constant difference in size between the sexes” (Hartert). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (0 13897) (J*, Tomohon, N. Cel., 28. IV. 94 (P.&F. S.) 
62 
56 
27 
9 
b. (Sarasin Coll, in spirit) ad., Tomohon, 8. IV. 94 . . 
58 
— 
25.5 
9 
c. (Sarasin Coll, in spirit) Tomohon, 8. IV. 94 ... . 
60 
55 
25 
8.5 
d. (Sarasin Coll.) ad., Loka, S. Cel., 18. X. 95 . . 
61 
62 
25 
9 
e. (C 14884) ad., Bonthain Peak, c. 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (Ev.) 
61 
— 
26 
9 
f. (C 14885) $ ad., Bonthain Peak, c. 6000 ft., Oct. 95 (Ev.) 
61 
— 
25 
9 
Distribution. North Celebes — Minahassa (v. Eosenberg a 7); Tomohon (P.&F. Sarasin a 2); 
South Celebes — Bonthain Mts. (Everett cl, P. & E. Sarasin, Doherty c 2). 
A single specimen of this species was obtained by v. Eosenberg in the 
Minahassa on 9**^ September 1874, and the Drs. P.&F. Sarasin found it again 
in April, 1894, near Tomohon at about 2500 feet. The genus seems to vary 
much in the size of individuals, the type described by Btittikofer being smaller 
in the wing (56 mm), tail (52), and tarsus (22). Tnchostoma celebensis varies much 
in the same way. Mr. Hartert received among others from the Peak of 
Bonthain “a perfect giant, with a wing of 64 mm in length”. 
Mr. Hartert, not having for comparison specimens from the North, which 
were wrongly referred by Mr. Biittikofer and ourselves to the genera Turdinus 
and Drymocataphus, named the Southern birds as a new species, Androphilus 
everetti After, for the second time, making the most careful comparison of the 
