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Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
“Burong kuku”, Talissi, Hickson 16. 
“Buluhuo” [PGorontalo Distr.], Eosenberg 6. 
“Bukuru busar”, Tjamba Distr., Platen e S. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 20. 
Figures and descriptions. Knip a /; Eeichenbacb //; Wallace d 2; Legge 7; Salradori 
e 5, 20', Oates 72; Vorderman 13. 
Adult male. General colour above deep drab, tlie back and wing-coverts with paler margins, 
the wing-coverts and inner secondaries Avith broad blackish mesial streaks, the back 
and upper tail-coverts with finer streaks; carpus and outermost wing-coverts 
cinereous with dark streaks; winglet and primary-coverts black, remiges blackish 
brorni; feathers of hind neck bifid, black, tipped with white, or, next the mantle, 
with pale broAvn; head and nape vinous-grey, forehead and cheeks pure deep ciner- 
eous, chin whitish; narrow rictal streak black; throat and breast deep vinous- 
grey, becoming on abdomen washed with buff; under tail-coverts wliite (rarely, as 
in this specimen, with a small dusky spot on a few at the tip of the shaft), meta- 
carpal edge and axillaries cinereous, the inner under wing-coverts black; the 
two middle tail-feathers brown like the back, the remaining five pairs black, 
the three outermost broadly tipped with white (c. 35 mm), becoming narrower and 
changing to dusky grey on the two next: iris brovra (Guillemard e 9) or fight red 
(Platen e S); bill brown-black (e 9) or black (e 8)', feet pinkish (e 9) or cherry-red 
(e 8)-, [(f ad., Tomohon, 13. III. 94: P.&F. Sarasin; and others). 
Female. Similar to the male, only slightly smaller (Salvad. 20); fore-neck and breast not 
so richly tinged with vinaceous; head above browner (g, Kema, early in Sept. 1893: 
P.& P. Sarasin). 
Young. Without the cervical collar of bifid, white-tipped black feathers; hind neck greyish 
brown, some of the feathers slightly bifid with dusky bases; the wing-coverts and 
scapulars terminally edged with whitish or ciimamon; under-parts more buff-tinted 
(Siao, 4. Vn. 93 — C 1264.5; Banka 14. V. 93 — 0 12301: Hat. Coll.). 
Fledgling. Two squabs about balf-grown, wliich appear to be correctly determined as the 
young «f T. tigrinus, have most of the feathers in brownish leaden sheaths, the sprouted 
ends of the remiges brown; primaries 10, the distal lO*** primaiy-covert well developed, 
but no trace (so far as we can make out) of an 11**“ primary; rectrices 12, the longest 
(the 3'^'^ pair from the middle) 25 mm; the two outermost pairs pure white, the next 
mostly white, leaden towards base, the three inner pairs dark leaden, the middle pair 
shorter than the 2“4 3’-‘> and 4*“. The middle pair and the 4“- are set on a Ifigher 
plane than the remaim'ng 2'"’ and and and 6“^ pairs (Kema, 14. Sept. 1893: 
P. & F. Sarasin). 
Measurements. Wing 151 mm; tail ca. 150, tarsus 26; bill from feathers of forehead 15. 
Eggs. Two, white, moderately elongated ovals, with a very fine shell and some gloss; 
c. 30 X 22 mm (Hume 18). 
Nest. Flimsily built of fine twigs, usually in thick bamboo-brakes at 10—20 feet, often hi a 
thick jujube tree (Lower Pegu — Oates 18), or in a bush. 
Breeding season. The above-described fledglings from the Minahassa were taken by the Drs. 
Sarasin on the 14*’’ of September, 1893 in Kema. Mi-. Oates remarks that it seems 
to breed at all times of the year in Pegu. 
Distribution. N.E. Oachar (Inglis 8)] Bm-niah (Oates J2); Nicobars (Lewis d 4); Tenasserim 
(Briggs e 5, Davison d 8, 20 etc.); Cochin China (St. Pierre 20); Siam (Schom- 
burgk e 5); Malay Peninsula (Cantor 20, Wallace d 2, etc.); Sumatra (Davison 
