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Birds of Celebes: Oriolidae. 
Adult. Deep lemon-yellow; a broad fillet passing from lores, above and below tbe 
eye, round the nape, black; bastard-wing and remiges black, the prhuary co- 
verts broadly tipped with yellow, forming a speculum, the secondaries slightly tipped 
with yellowish; rectrices black, tipped with yellow, about 1 cm broad on the middle 
pair, increasing to 4 or 5 cm on the outermost: “iris deep cmnabar-red; bill white, 
tinged with rosy red; feet dark ohvaceous grey” — Everett 2 {(f, Djampea, Dec. 
1895: Everett — 0 14878). 
Sexes. The sexes are alike (Hartert 2). Two females in the Sarasin Collection from 
Bonerate have the upper parts washed with ohvaceous orange. 
Individual variation. “The colour is a pure and perfect orange in some specimens; in others 
some feathers are orange, others yellow; in some the whole plumage is washed with 
yellow, while others are of a pure lemon-yellow without a shade of orange, and of 
the latter some have the mantle faintly tinged with greenish. These variations in 
colour are either due to age or perhaps to food, but not to sex or locahty, specimens 
from Kalao being perfectly similar to those from Djampea” (Hartert). 
Measurements. Wing 162—173 mm; tail 123—133 (Hartert evidently measures from the 
root, we from the oil-gland); tarsus 26 — 29; culmen 36 38 (Hartert 2). 
Distribution. Bonerate (P.&E. Sarasin I); Djampea and Kalao (Everett 2). 
The type of this large Oriole is a female obtained by the Sarasin.s in 
Bonerate Island in December, 1894; they subsequently acquired two more speci- 
mens from the same island, and Mr. Everett a series from Djampea and from 
Kalao, where he found it more numerous than in Djampea. The nearest known 
affinities of this bird are with O. hrodmipi Bp. of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a 
smaller species, with a less stout bill, the primaries as well as the secondaries 
tipped with yellow. There is an error in the description of the type of O. 
honeratemis ; the middle rectrices are not entirely black, but tipped with yellow, 
though the yellow tip is broken off in one feather and the other is not full 
grown; herein it resembles O. broderipi. The Celebes Oriole is easily distinguish- 
able from the present bird by its small size, absence of the speculum, etc.; 
the Sula, Talaut, and Sangi birds by their black heads, with only the forehead 
yellow, and by other points. 
* 249. ORIOLUS FORMOSUS Cab. 
Sangi Oriole. 
This species belongs to the Sangi Islands, but varies locally. 
1, The typical Oriolus formosus, 
a. Oriolus formosus (1) Cab., J. f. 0. 1872, 392; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 186, (3) 
Meyer in Bowl. Orn. iVIisc. H, 1877, 228, pt; (4) Salv. & Sclat., Ibis 1877, 378; 
(V) Meyer, VogelskcL I, 1882, 20, pi. XXV; (6) id., Isis, Dresden 1884, 6 (Siao); 
(7J M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 248, pt. 
b. Broderipus formosus fl) Wald., Ibis 1873, 306; (2j Bowley, Om. Misc. H, 187/, 227 pt., 
(3) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 642. 
“Kariawo”, Siao, Xat. Coll. 
