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waves its tail up and down. As already remarked it may possibly be found to 
intergrade with its southern ally, 6'. cdbicollis, somewhere in the unknown inter- 
mediate countries; Beccari thought he saw this race with the yellow bill-tipped 
form of the south at Kandari, and Meyer got a specimen at Manado (?) with 
yellow on the biU, but no such specimens have been met with by other writers. 
Sixty-six examined by Briiggemann all had the bill black, and we also have 
seen large numbers, but none with yellow-tipped bills. Ihe white of the breast 
encroaches in some specimens towards the chin, thus indicating its affinity to 
Charitornis in which all parts of the head and throat, where not bare, are white 
like the neck, breast, and abdomen. 
GENUS CHARITORNIS Schl. 
This inhabitant of the Sula Islands has a long tail like Streptocitta of 
Celebes, but differs in having the face, chin, and throat naked, and the bill, 
legs, and feet yellow. The plumage of the head, like most of the under parts, 
is white. 
* 243. CHARITORNIS ALBERTINAS Schl. 
Sula Magpie. 
Charitornis albertinae (I) Schl., Ned. Tdschr. Dierk. 1865, HI, 1, pi. VIII, (2) Sclat., Ibis 
1866, 210; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, YIII, 76; (4) Sharpe, Cat. B. XIII, 1890, 153. 
a. Eulabes albertinae (1) Gray, HL. IT, 1870, 19, Nr. 6277. 
Figure and descriptions. Schlegel J; Sharpe 4. 
Adult. General colour above glossy greenish black, mth a very faint purple gloss; lesser and 
median wing-coverts like the hack; remainder of the wing-coverts, quills and tail- 
feathers black, washed with steel-green on the edges; crown of head, entire hind neck, 
and under surface of the body white; the chin and upper throat, cheeks, lores, sides 
of face and all the region above and behind the eye, including the greater part of 
the ear-coverts, bare, the skin corrugated; lower flanks, lower abdomen, thighs and 
under tail-coverts black glossed with green, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries; 
a white feather near the edge of the under greater wing-coverts; quills black below. 
Total length 457 mm; culmen 32; wing 147; tad 267 (Sharpe 4). 
Distribution. Sula Mangoli (Bernstein I). 
This remarkable species seems to be rather a rare bird in Sula, where it 
was not found by Wallace’s assistant Allen, and it was first obtained in two 
female examples in February, 1864, by a native hunter sent out by Bernstein. 
Schlegel, who gives a full account of the bird, unfortunately omitted to point 
out its generic differences from Streptocitta, and Walden believed that the two 
could not be generically separated. The bare skin on the face, chin and throat, 
the yellow bill, feet and legs, the white plumage of the head and of nearly 
all the under surface readily distinguish Charitornis from its Celebesian ally; 
the first character is one of generic worth, and others will most likely be found 
if looked for. 
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