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Birds of Celebes: Faloonidae. 
(Lotta, INIinahassa, 23. June 1894: ISTat. Coll. — 0 12237). An adult cf (Macassar, 
AVallace in the Briti.sli Museum) lias the hars present on the basal half of the 
wings, hut much ohliterated; tail, not harred, above blackish slate, below shining 
dusky; under siu-face of body deep cinnamon -chestnut. This description appears to 
apply to another specimen — from the hars being perceptible on its tail apparently 
a female — shot at Lotta N. Celebes 29. May 1 893 by our native collectors, now in 
the Tiing Museum. 
Young. Above resembling the adult; below the dark cinnamon-ground coloiu’ is plentifully 
marked with streaks and spots of black, which take the form of sagittate marks and 
bars on the under wing-coverts ; the bars on ivings and tail below more distinct than 
in adults from the same locality fJava, C 10553, S. E. New Guinea, Nr. 8726). 
A young specimen from Celebes (Tweedd. Coll, in Brit. Mus.) does not corres- 
pond as regards the tail with the above adult (f from Macassar, having it barred 
with cinnamon as in a young one from Sikkim. 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmen 
from cere 
246 
120 
35 
15.5 
220 
108 
32 
13 
217 
100 
31 
12.5 
247 
112 
34 
15 
211 
98 
29 
13 
245 
117 
34 
15.5 
235 
109 
32 
14 
a. (C 10568) Calcutta 
b. (C 10552) .Java 
c. (C 10553) juv. Java 
d. (8727) Q S. E. New Guinea 
e. (8726) cf juv. » 
f. (C 12237) [Q] N. Celebes 
g. (Tring Mus.) [Q] N. Celebes 
Distribution. Himalayas (Legge 9, Salvad. d 8); Bengal (Blyth d 4)\ Ceylon (9. d8)', 
? Burmah (Oates 77); Philippines (Cuming d 2], Mindanao ("Everett d 7^'*), Negros 
(Layard d'"'*), Mndoro (Platen in Mus. Nehrkorn), Cebu, Siipiijor, Tawi-Tawi, 
Calamianes, Romblon, Sibuyan (Bourns & M^orcester 77), Palawan (Platen d 12, 
AVhitehead d 13, Steere 14), Sooloo Islands (Platen d 14)-, Borneo (Fischer 5, 
Everett 15)-, Tenasserun and Malacca (d 8), .Java {d 8, Forbes 70); South Celebes 
Macassar (AVallace 4, BeccariJ7), North Celebes, Manado (v. Duivenbo de 
Nat. Coll.); Ternate (Fischer rZ 70); Halmahera /"(Z 8y ; Ceram (d 8)] Salawatti (d 8)', 
Jobi (d 8)] S. & S. E. New Guinea fd 8, dll)-, New Britain (Brown 8). 
The range of F. severns appears to be checked and bounded by the oc- 
currence of Gvo rival species of Hobby, the Palaearctic F. stibhuteo L. on the 
one hand, and the Australasian F. hmulatus Lath, on the other. The ranges 
of both of these species overlap that of F. secerns, and that of F. hmulatus, in 
particular, encroaches far into it; F. severus and F. suhhuteo are found together 
in India, where the former, according to Colonel lladcliffe “is local, while 
F. suhhuteo is migratory”; and, to the south, both F. severus and F. lunidatiis 
have been obtained in New Britain (d 9) and also in Ceram and Ternate. 
AVhether F. severus is a migTatory species in the East Indian Archipelago, 
there is no sufficient evidence to show; probably it is not such. In the cold 
season, however, as was noted by Blyth, “it visits the plains of Bengal, where 
it is somewhat rare”; in Ceylon it can only be regarded as a straggler according 
to Colonel Legge, who believes that it finds its way to that island during the 
season of migration. There is no evidence of a similar movement in the East 
