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Birds of Celebes: Sturnidae. 
c. Calornis negleeta pt. (1) Wald, Tr. Z. S. Vm, 1872, 79 (Sula); (2) Sharpe, Ibis 1876, 
46 (Sula). 
d. Calornis obscura pt. (1) Salvad., Orn. Pap. II, 1881, 454. 
Calornis sulaensis (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. Xm, 1890, 149; (2) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 
1896, Nr. 2, p. 18. 
“Salinggoka mopo”, Tonkean and Balante, East Celebes, Nat. Coll. 
“Kuling”, Peling and Banggai, iid. 
Description. Sharpe 1. 
Diagnosis. In colour like C. panayemis of Celebes, but slightly duller and less copi^ery; 
differs cliiefly by having the tail much longer and strongly graduated, the outennost 
pair of rectrices about 25 — 30 mm shorter than the middle ones, and the supraloral 
and post-nasal feathers smooth, not disintegrated and velvety (ad. Peling — C 14550, 
and others). 
Measurements (8 adults, Peling, Banggai, and E. Celebes). Wing 106 — 112 mm; tail 90 — 96; 
tarsus c. 24; bill from nostril 13.5 — 15. 
Young. Like the young of C. panayensis, but is distinguishable by its smooth post-nasal 
feathers and long graduated tail (Tonkean — C 14431, and others). 
Distribution. Sula Islands (Allen a 1)\ Banggai, Peling, and East Celebes (Nat. Coll.). 
A fine series of this well characterized species were collected by our native 
hunters in Peling and Banggai, and also in East Celebes, where C. panayensis 
was not obtained. Celebes thus appears to have been invaded by Glossy Star- 
lings at three different points — by C. minor of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the 
South, by C. panayensis of the Philijjpines in the North, and by C. sulaensis in 
the East. By the shape of its tail and by its not having the supraloral feathers 
disintegrated Calornis sulaensis betrays its affinities with C. metallica and with 
C. circumscripta of Timorlaut, but it is easily distinguishable by the absence of 
purple on the mantle, head, and throat, and by the middle rectrices less prolonged, 
as also by the less bronzy hue of its plumage. 
234. CALORNIS METALLICA (Temm.). 
Australian Glossy Starling. 
a. Lamprotornis metallica (I) Temm., PI. Col. II, pi. 266 (1824); (2) Einsch, Neu-Guinea 
1866, 174. 
b. Stourne bronze (I) Hombr. & Jacq., Voy. Pole Sud, Atl. pi. 16, f. 2 (1832 — 35). 
c. Aplonis metallica (I) Gld., B. Austr. Suppl. 1851, pi. 33. 
Calornis metallica (1) Gray, Gen. B. PE, 327 (1846); (2j Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 343; 
(3) Gld., Hand-b. B. Austr. 1865, I, 477; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VIH, 1872, 80; 
(5) Bams., P. Z. S. 1875, 593; (6) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 78, 100; 
(7) Salvad., Om. Pap. 11. 1881, 447; (8) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 120, 126, 159; 
Meyer, Isis, Di'esden 1884, 48; (10) Bamsay, Tab. List 1888, 12; North, 
Nests and Eggs B. Austr. 1889, 190; (12) Sharpe, Cat. B. XTTI , 1890, 138; (13) 
Salvad., Orn. Pap. Agg. 1890, 141; (14) Meyer, Ibis 1890, 417; (15) Hartert, 
Kat. V. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 75; (16) id., Nov. Zool. 1896, 13, 235; (17) Salvad., 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1896, (2) XVI, 102. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvad. 7, 75; Sharpe 12. 
