Birds of Celebes: Timeliidae. 
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Mus. 1895, XVn, 88 ; (4) M. & Wg., Abli. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 12; (5) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 151; (6) id., ib. 1897, 155, 159, 161. 
Trichostoma finschi (I) AVald., Ibis 1876, 378, pi. XI, fig. 1. 
b. Turdinus finschi (1) Sbarpe, Oat. B. VII, 1883, 543; (2) Blittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s 
Reise in Ost-Lid. 1893, HI, 276. 
Figure and descriptions. Walden 1, Sharpe b 1. 
Adult male. Head above and mantle ohve-brown, gradually changing into ferruginous- 
brown on the upper tail-coverts and external edges of the rectrices; wings dull olive- 
brown, the coverts edged with the colour of the back, the remiges externally rather 
paler; under surface rufous-buff, browmer on the sides, greyer on the sides of the 
breast, more cinnamon on the under tail- and wing-coverts, clearing into whitish on 
the chin and throat and middle of abdomen; lores whitish, more fulvous round the 
eye; ear-coverts gi’ey-brown with pale shaft-lines; “iris pale red-brown; feet pale 
purphsh; maxilla blacldsh, mandible bluish horn-colour” — Doherty {(^f, Macassar, 
3. VI. 95: Sarasin CoU.). 
Female. Lilie the male in coloration, but smaller (Q, Macassar, 29. VIH. 95: P.&E. S.). 
Measurements (4 examples: Macassar: P.& P. S.). Wing (2 cfcT) 75, 77 mm, (2 Q Q) 68, 71; 
tail 55, $ 50, 52; tarsus c. 27, bill from nostril 10.5 — 11. 
Distribution. South Celebes — Macassar (Wallace I, bl, al, Oonrad a 2, I, etc.), low 
country near Bonthain (Doherty a 6)] West Celebes — - Palos Bay (a 6). 
This species may be distinguished from T. celehensis of North Celebes by 
the tawny-buff tint of the sides of the body, the fulvous colour round the eye 
and the different tint of the upper surface. Until the visits of the Sarasins, 
Everett and Doherty, only four specimens of it had been recorded, but 
Mr. Doherty sent more examples of it than of any other bird from Macassar. 
Dr. Sharpe places the bird between two West African species, T. gularis 
(Sharpe) and T. rufescens (Rchw.), from both of which it differs by its tawny 
under-parts, but Mr. Biittikofer points out some small structural differences, 
which lead him to place the African species in a different genus, Illadopsis. 
The curious correspondence of the members of several genera of Titneliidae in 
East India and Africa south of the Sahara has been already commented upon 
in the foregoing article. 
GENUS MALACOPTERON Eyt. 
Differs from Triehostoma chiefly by its long wing and small tarsus and foot. 
As Biittikofer shows, the tail, which is rounded, is three times the length of 
the tarsus. The feathers of the forehead grow as far as the nostril, which is 
screened with bristles; the rictal bristles are large, reaching to within V 4 of 
the tip of the bill. If not a Flycatcher, it is a very near approach thereto. 
Range: Malay Peninsula to Java, Borneo, Palawan, Celebes. 
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