Birds of Celebes: Ouculidae. 
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“Burong-pangil-udjan” i. e. “Rain-caller” fMeyer a 2), or “Burong socangge” (Nat. Coll, in 
Mus. Dresd.j, Malays of tlie Minahassa. 
“Embis” (Meyer), or “Koko imbantik” (Nat. Coll.), Natives of the interior of the Minahassa. 
“Sinde”, Tonkean, E. Celebes (Nat. Coll.). 
“Toknlat”, Banggai, iicl. 
Figure and descriptions. Walden ffi; Briiggemann 57; Shelley 7; M eyer clJ (skeleton); 
M. & Wg. 6. 
Adult. Head and hind neck greenish slate-grey, becoming greener on the upper back, 
and dark slaty on the rump and upper tail-coverts; wing brownish glossed 
with bronze-green; metacarpus white, partly concealed; tail black, glossed with 
jDurple, the tips of the feathers white, the inner webs of some of the outer ones 
slightly notched with white; cheeks, chin and throat grey, paler than the head; 
all the other under parts, including under Aving- and tail-coverts, deep cinnamon- 
rufous; wing below with a broad Avhite band running across the inner webs of the 
quills near their base (N. Celebes, between Manado and Arakan, C 10876). 
Young in first plumage. Very different from the adult: above black, the feathers margined 
and barred Avdth cinnamon-brownish, talcing a more striate form on the head; under 
jiarts barred with Avhite and black, the black predominating ; under wing-coverts 
Avhite, with a feAV black bars and transverse spots; remiges below dusky blackish, 
with a broad buff-white hand across the middle of them; on the outermost quill a 
Avhitish spot only; tail black, barred or notched with cinnamon-iufous, the bars 
mostly not reaching down to the shaft: “iris sepia; feet above greyish, below yellowish; 
bill above black, below reddish grey” (o’, Kema, 27. Oct. 93, and juv. Tomohon, 
30. Apr. 94: P, & E. Sarasin). 
Immature in changing plumage. Half in young, half in adult dress; the adult coloration 
prevails on the under surface, though the rufous is browner and on the breast some 
of the feathers sIioav vermiculate bars, often obscure; wings as in the young; head, 
back and tail with adult and young feathering mingled together (E. Celebes, Y.— VHI. 
95: 0 14437). 
The young of C. rirescens is easy to distinguish from that of C. m&i'ulirms by 
the under side of the Aving, A\-hich is notched AAnth rufous-cinnamon all along the 
inner webs in the latter; the predominating colour of the former is dusky black, of 
the latter cinnamon. 
Measurements. 
a. (C 10876) ad. near Manado, VIII. — IX. 92 ... . 
h. (C 1865) ad. Manado, HI. 71 ■ ■ 
c. (C 1866) ad. Manado, ‘HI. 71 
d. (10875) ad. near Manado, VHI. — IX. 92 
e. (C 5185) imm. Manado 
f. (C 5184) hum. Manado 
g. (C 14695) ad. Banggai, V. -VIH. 95 
h. (Sarasin Coll.) (f, Tomohon, 16. IV. 94 
(Sarasin Coll.) o’, Kema, 15. TX. 93 
j. (Sarasin Coll.) imm., Kema, MHI. 93 
(Sarasin Coll.) O’) Tklapane N. Centr. Cel., 28. H. 95 
/. (Sarasin Coll.) O’) Cel., 8. IX. 95. . . . 
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