Birds of Celebes: Sturnidae. 
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Adult [female]. Differs from the male in being dark drab-brown above; the greater wing- 
coverts, secondaries, tips of the primaries, and tail glossed with greyish 
green; tips of the middle wing-coverts and basal part of the first three 
secondaries externally dirty white; ear-coverts pale drab; remaining parts much 
as in the adult male, but the sides of the body paler and browner grey (Goron- 
talo; Riedel — Nr. 2218). 
Dr. Sharpe describes the female plumage as that shown above. Prof.W. Blasius 
^6) describes the female as like the male hut rust-yellow, not white, on the quills 
below where they rest upon the body; intense rust-yellow on the chin, the edges of 
the tail-feathers and quills. 
Young. Much resembles the female. 
Distribution. Japan (d I, e 2, f 2, g 2, g 5), Eturop, Kurile Is. (Blakiston & Fryer g 5), 
Loochoo Is. (Stcjneger g 5); Philippines — Luzon (Maitland Heriot 7), Negros 
and Mindanao (Steere 2), Palawan (Platen 8, .9, 13), Tawi Tawi and Mindoro 
(Bourns & Worcester J7); Borneo — North (Whitehead & Treacher 11, 12), 
South-east (Grahowsky 5); Celebes, Northern Peninsula — Gorontalo (Riedel g 3 
and in Dresd. Mus.), Minahassa (Riedel 6, Faber in Dresden Mus.); Batchian 
(Wallace 3, 15). 
It is remarkable that the Red-cheeked Starling, which is a winter migrant 
from Japan, has been obtained, with the exception of a specimen in the Dresden 
Museum from v. Faber, only by Dr. Riedel in Celebes; and Prof. Blasins 
rightly remarks that this is to be explained on the ground that the bird is not 
always present there, but only occurs at certain times on migration, and then, 
probably, in great flocks, such as were met with by Grabowsky in S. E. Borneo. 
Dr. Schadenberg met with it in swarms in the Philippines, I April, 1885. 
As a similar case, it may be mentioned that in August -September, 1892, our 
native collectors met with Glareola isabella V . near Lake 1 ondano in great num- 
bers. It is remarkable also that the bird has never been met with in China, 
nor in Formosa, where Swinhoe looked for it without success, and its migra- 
tion seems to be made straight from Japan and the Loochoo Islands to the 
Philippines without touching any part of the Asiatic continent. 
Its nearest ally is Sturnia sturnina (Pall.) , (= daurica Pall.), of E. Asia, 
migrating in winter to Malacca and Java, the adult male of which differs by 
wanting the red ear-coverts, and by having a blackish patch on the nape, and 
buff-white scapulars; the young is distinguished by Dr. Sharpe by the broad 
white edging to the outer tail-feather, — very narrow in S. violacea. 
GENUS BASILEORNIS Bp. 
The members of this genus are of about the size of a Thrush and striking- 
looldng birds by reason of the feathers of the head, which meet in the mesial 
line to form a high ridged crest, or in one species a high recurved crest over 
the crown. A small space of bare skin below and behind the eye. In the^ 
Celebesian species the nostril and much of the culmen is hidden by the crest- 
