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Birds of Celebes: Sturnidae. 
an angle; tail rather short, rounded; wing moderate, the secondaries about % 
its length ; tarsus and feet yellow, large, the tarsus about as a long as the middle 
toe and claw; sexes similar. Range: Afghanistan to Celebes. 
j* 236. AOKIDOTHEKES OINEREUS Bp. 
Celebes Myna. 
Acridotheres cinereus (1) Bp., Consp. I, 1850, 420; (2) Pinsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 174; 
(3) Gray, HL. H, 1870, 20, Nr. 6289; (IV) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Ym, 77, pi. X, 
fig. 1; ('5;Blytli, Ibis 1873, 79; (6) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 134; (7) Guillem., P. Z. S. 
1885, 556; (8) Sharpe, Cat. B. Xm, 1890, 91; (9) Biittik., Zool Erg. Weber’s 
Reise OsGLid. 1893, m, 280; (10) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Xr. 1, p. 13; 
(11) Hart., Zov. Zool. 1896, 154. 
Figure and descriptions. Walden IV\ Bonaparte 7; Sharpe 8. 
Adult. Above smoke-grey, paler on the rump and upper tail-coverts, where the shafts of 
the feathers are whitish; head above, clothed with lanceolate feathers, and 
upper car-coverts slaty black; chin, throat, jugulum, thighs, and axillaries 
dark smoke-grey, crossed with obscure brownish bars; malar region darker; re- 
maining under-parts pale smoke-grey, tinged with fulvous on the middle of the 
body; middle of abdomen pale cinnamon; under tail-coverts white, washed with 
isabelline; wings above dark bistre-brown; the lesser coverts broadly edged, the 
middle coverts more narrowly bordered, with drab; the smaller bastard-wing-feather 
outwardly white; primary coverts white ; the free ends and inner webs of the primaries 
black; across the base of the primaries a broad white band; tail brownish black, 
tipped with white, increasing in width towards the outermost feathers, the shafts 
blacki.sh; “iris lemon-yellow; bill and feet yellow” ($, Kahbankere, Tjamba Distr., 
S. Cel., 1. Vin. 78: Platen — C 5372). Wing 129 mm; tail 73; tarsus 34.5; bill 
fr. nostril 15. 
Hr. Guillemard describes the iris in the male as brownish orange, bill red- 
orange, feet yellow. 
Sexes. Similar in plumage (Sharpe 8). 
Remark. The example described above is in worn plumage. Dr. Sharpe describes the 
abdomen as “greyish white, sides of body, flanks and thighs light ashy grey, under 
tail-coverts white”. A female in good plumage in the Sarasin Collection has the 
chin, throat, and tliighs dark smoke-grey, uniform. 
Distribution. Celebes, Soutbem Peninsula: Macassar (Wallace S, Meyer 6, Weber 9, etc.), 
Pankadjene (P. & E. Sarasin 10), Tanette (Meyer 8), Tjamba Distr. (Platen in 
Dresd. Mus.), Maros (Guillem. 7), Tete Adji (Weber 9). 
Just as Enodes is known only from the Northern Peninsula of Celebes, so 
the present species is at present known only from the Southern Peninsula. 
Meyer found it very common near Macassar, but both Guillemard and he 
mention that they never met with it in North Celebes. Its nearest affinities 
are with the Javan A. javanicus, Cab., and it follows the rule that when a Cele- 
besian species is closely related to one occurring between Java and Timor, its 
habitat is sure to be South Celebes, but not always the North as well. Acridotheres 
javanicus differs in being dark brownish slate above and dark mouse-grey below ; 
