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Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
with an obscure dark oblique band on the inner web (Djampea, Dec. 1895: Everett 
— 0 14859). 
Sexes. Similar: “the wing of the female is about 5 to 10 mm shorter” (Hartert). 
Young. Differs from the adult in having the feathers of the head broadly tipped with cinna- 
mon-rufous, the bases black; the wing-coverts, scapulars and remiges terminally 
margined with nifous (O, Djampea, Dec. 1894: Everett — 0 14860). 
Measurements. Wing 180— 192 mm; tail 188—207; tarsus 23; bill 19 (Biittikofer). 
The above-described two specimens from Djampea have the wing 200 and 194 mm, 
and seem, therefore, to belong to a large insular race. 
Distribution. South Celebes: Macassar Distr. (Wallace al, 3, Teijsmann 4); Saleyer Id. 
[Weber 4, Everett 5); Djampea (Everett 5). 
There is no evidence to shoAv that this species has ever occurred in North 
Celebes, where young and female specimens of M. albicapilla have been mistaken 
for it. In South Celebes both species occur together, hut the present bird is, 
as Mr. Buttikofer shows, much larger than the typical M. albicapilla, and it is 
further distinguishable by the mouse-brown colour of its upper surface. Also 
the sexes seem to be similar in coloration. From the two latter characters 
Major Wardlaw Ramsay places it with M. magna Wall, of Timor and 
M. timorlaoensis Meyer in a separate division of the genus Macropygia. The 
two latter species may, as shown by Count Salvadori’s key, be distinguished 
from the Celebesian bird by their having the head of a different colour from 
the upper surface. It is said to be mouse-brown uniform with the upper parts 
in M.. macassariensis, but this is not absolutely correct, judging from the Djampea 
birds, which have the head and neck much greyer brown than the other upper 
parts. 
M. macassariensis follows the rule that, w'hen Timorese types occur in 
( elebes, it is in the South of the island, and sometimes, but not always, in the 
North as well. 
Reinwardtoenas reinwardti (Temm.). The type of this species, which 
ranges from the Moluccas to New Guinea, was said to have come from Celebes. 
No proof of this has since been obtained, and Temminck’s indication should, 
therefore, be regarded as erroneous. 
FAMILY PERISTERIDAE. 
The Turtle-doves and Ground-doves are separated by Count Salvador! as 
a family consisting of 7 subfamilies. The tarsus is naked (except quite at the 
joint in Turtur, Geophaps, and others), and is equal to or longer than the middle 
toe without the claw; tail-feathers 12—20. Of Salvadori’s 7 subfamilies, 
2 belong to the New World; the other 5 have representatives in Celebes. 
