Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 
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Northern and Southern birds, we find ourselves unable to point to any tangible 
difference between them; there is some amount of individual variation, but it 
would be unsafe at present to say that there is any racial divergence. 
Trichostoma and Drymocataphus (examined; D. capistratvs) have 12 rectrices; 
Androphilus, as was first pointed out by Mr. Ogilvie Grant (Ibis 1895, 448), 
has only 10; it has also only about three very short and inconspicuous rictal 
(or, better, subloral) bristles. Mr. Ernst Hartert rightly refers his Celebesian 
birds to this genus, which is a very aberrant one, known as yet only in A. accentor 
Sharpe from Mt. Kini Balu, Borneo, and in the present A. castaneus Buttik. 
from the highlands of Celebes. The throat of the former is spotted with black. 
Probably some further allies of these birds will be found among some of the 
known species of Drymocataphus and others when the rectrices have been examined. 
GENUS CATAPONERA Hart.' 
A genus peculiar to Celebes, in size and appearance very Thrush-like, 
differing chiefly by the short, rounded wing and the black parietal stripe. The 
P* primary is about half the length of the 2”^, which is about as long as the 
secondaries, the 4^’^, 5*’' and 6*’^ primaries forming the tip of the wing. Tail of 
12 feathers, nearly as long as the wing, and nearly square in shape. Bill 
Thrush-like, nostril oval, the frontal plumes impinging to its base; rictal bristles 
of moderate size; behind the eye a small bare patch. Tarsus rather long, 
the wing-length, not scutellated, except near the foot; toes long, but shorter 
than the tarsus, the middle toe exceeding the lateral ones by more than the 
length of its claw. 
The following is the only known species, and it seems to stand between 
the Thrushes and the Crateroj)odinae. 
* 205. CATAPONERA TURDOIDES Hart. 
Black-browed Babbler. 
Plate XXIX. 
Cataponera turdoides ( 1 ) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, HI, 70, 151. 
Adult male. Above olivo-brown, slightly jjaler on the head, duller on wings and tail (the 
latter crossed with obscure, narrow bars seen only in certain lights); under parts 
greyer (or more ohve-drab), inchning to wliitish fawn-colour on abdomen and flanks, 
russet on tliighs and under tail-coverts, browner on under wing-coverts; apex of chin 
whitish; a broad superciliary stripe from lores to sides of nape, together 
with the anterior malar region black; a naked triangular space behind the eye: 
bill orange, “feet orange-yellow” — Hartert; wing 116 mm; tail 106; tarsus 38; middle 
toe with claw 34; culmen from cranial suture 24 ($ “native collector”, Bonthain 
Peak, 6000 ft, Oct 1895: Everett — C 14881). 
Sexes. The sexes are not known to differ in coloration. 
