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Birds of Celebes; Cueulidae. 
cinnamon), closely mottled with sooty, the flanks and under tail-coverts almost entirely 
of this coloiu' (near Manado, C 10872). 
D. Male with earliest appearances of adult plumage. Head, hind neck, and some sprouting 
feathers in the tail hliie-hlack; rest of upper surface very dark glossy green, the 
quills with blue reflections; a pale stripe from rictus to side of neck; chin and throat 
blackish, passing into brownish green on chest; rest of under surface sooty brown, 
varied with cinnamon, especially on the breast and upper abdomen (Manado, C 1844). 
Three other [cf] specimens, api)arently slightly less developed, have the tail, 
lilce the hack, very dark green, with greenish or bluish reflections; the cinnamon 
colour greatly predominating on the under surface and the long rictal stripe of white 
varied with cimiamon or brown broader and more distinct. 
E and e. First plumage [(if and § ] . Above dark glossy green, uniform, approaching to black 
on the head; cliin and throat dusky; rictal streak of fulvous white passing into the 
cinnamon-brown of sides of neck; under surface cinnamon, each feather crossed with 
two or three fine brace-shaped bars of dusky (0 5181 and three others). In one the 
bars on the under surface are quite absent (0 1843). Tail-feathers of the two others 
obscurely barred with dark cinnamon (C 263, C 1845). Bill in C 5181 dark horn- 
brown, under mandible paler; in 0 263 and 1845 darker honi; in 1843 black. 
Nestling. Plumage uniform above, apparently similar to the above, and below similarly 
cinnamon with brace-shaped bars (Tomohon, 15. IV. 94: P. & F. Sarasin). 
c. Female with earliest appearances of adult plumage. Head, neck and mantle blmsh black, as 
in male with earhest appearance of adult dress (see .st/jura); back and Aving- coverts 
varied uuth somewhat obscure bars of rufous brown (cinnamon-hazel); wings composed 
of old dusky feathers, uniform as in the young, and of ne^v ones (some of them 
sprouting) crossed with cinnamon-hazel and black bars, the black ones a Httle the 
broadest; tail similarly composed of uoav feathers — some of them groAving — barred 
with cinnamon-hazel and black, one old feather is dusky with the cinnamon markings 
very obscure; chin and throat black, slightly touched up with whitish brown; rictal 
streak white; under surface fulvous cinnamon, crossed with narrow brace-shaped 
blackish bars. Bill blackish horn-colour (near Manado, 0 10869). 
From the circumstance that the third and fourth (prills of one wing and the 
third and fifth of the other are old feathers, but are nevertheless considerably marked 
with imperfectly -formed bars of cinnamon in their basal two-thirds, we infer that 
this specimen may be a second-year bird passing into its thud phase of dress. The 
quills, in what we take to be young specimens in first plumage, are uniform, but 
perhaps our four young ones are all males. Another [$] specimen (C 266), appa- 
rently of the same age as the above is somewhat more melanistic in character. 
b. Female a little older. Like the last, but with no remains of a younger dress. Head, 
neck and mantle bluish black; rest of upper surface evenly barred with cinnamon- 
hazel and black; chin and throat black; beloAv fulvous cinnamon, finely bai-red with 
dusky (near Manado, C 10871). 
a. Adult female. Like the last, but with the head, neck, chin and throat cinnamon-hazel 
with dusky edges to most of the feathers, giving a somewhat streaked appearance; 
the cinnamon - hazel bars of the upper surface much broader than the black ones 
($, Kema, 7. Aug. 93; B. <& F. S.). In 0 3581 the bill is dark horn-colour, the under 
mandible paler; in 0 10870 almost all black. 
Three other specimens afford transitions between the immature stage b and the 
adult stage a (N. Celebes, C 265, 5183, 264). 
