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roosts in large flocks, feeds on berries and, as Davison says, insects; in the 
stomach of a specimen killed by the Drs. Sarasin at Kema were the pits of a 
fruit called “Bua kaju”. Its cry is described as a single metallic note. 
232. OALORNIS MINOR (Bp.). 
Timor Glossy Starling. 
a. lamprotornis minor (1) Bp., Consp. Av. 1850, I, 417; (2) Pinscli, Neu-Guinea 1865, 174. 
Calornis minor (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 486; (2) Gray, HL. 11, 1870, 26, Nr. 6375; (3) 
Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 80; (4) Sharpe, Ibis 1876, 48; (5) Meyer, Verb, 
z.-b. Ges. Wien 1881, 766; (6) id., Isis, Dresden 1884, 48; (7) Guillem., P. Z. S. 
1885, 509; (8) Sharpe, Cat. B. XTU, 1890, 142; (9J Buttik., Notes Leyden Mus. 
XIV, 1892, 201; (10) Meyer, t. c. 265; (11) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Reise 
Ostr-Ind. 1893, m, 280; (12) Tristr., Iliis 1895, 375; (13) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. 
Ind. 1895, LIY, 348; (14) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 4; (15) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 154, 168, 559, 568, 580, 583, 594. 
Description. Sharpe 8. 
Adult male. Coppery green on a black ground; neck and jugulum dark auricula-purple; 
quills and tail-feathers black with a green gloss on the tail and a blue one on wings. 
“Iris light red; bill and feet black.” Wing 106 mm, tail 70, tarsus 19.5, bill from 
nostril 11 mm (o’, Bonthain, S. Celebes: Ribbe & Kuhn — Nr. 13556). 
Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but with a slight purpbsb gloss on the bead 
(Sharpe 8). 
Young, Browner than the adults, with a sbght green gloss; below dull white, with broad 
blackisb streaks; sides of body uniform dull brown; iris red (Sharpe 8). 
Observation. The tail is not gi’aduated but square in shape. 
Distribution. Lombok (Wallace i, 8, etc. 13, 15)-, Sumbawa (Guillemard 7, Doherty 15); 
Sumba (Riedel 5, 10, ten Kate 9, Doherty J5); Plores (Wallace 1, 8); Timor 
(Mus. Leyden a 1, Wallace 1, 8, Mus. Dresd. 5); South Celebes (Ribbe & Kuhn 
6‘, Weber 11, etc. 14, 15). 
This species, a native of the Lesser Sunda Islands, has been obtained by 
Ribbe & Klihn, Weber, the Sarasins, and Everett in the extreme south 
of South Celebes, but nowhere else at present in the island. It may be dis- 
tinguished from C. 'panayensis of the Northern Peninsula by the dark purple of 
the hackle-feathers of the throat, sides of neck and (to some extent) hind neck, 
by its smaller bill and shorter tarsus. From C. metallica it differs by the different 
green of its plumage, the absence of purple on the mantle, its short square 
tail and smaller size. Once, again, this bird exemplifies the rule that Lesser 
Sundan forms predominate in South Celebes, not in the North. 
* 233. CALORNIS SULAENSIS Sharpe. 
Sula Glossy Starling. 
Plate XXXVI. 
a. Calornis obscura var. (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 343. 
h. Lamprotornis obseurus pt. (1) Pinscb, Neu-Guinea 1865, 174 (Sula). 
ileyer * Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (Not. Kith 1S97). 
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