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We are also able to compare 32 other specimens, sex not indicated. One 
displays a white feather on the hack, — partial alhinism. 
Skeleton (VIII). 
Length of cranimn . . . 
. 70.0 mm 
Length of tarso-metatarsus . . 
45.0 mm 
Greatest breadth of do. . 
. 28.0 » 
Length of digitus HI . . . 
41.0 
» 
Length of humerus . . . 
. 39.0 » 
Length of sternum .... 
27.7 
Length of ulna .... 
. 31.5 » 
Greatest breadth of do. . . . 
25.5 
> 
Length of radius .... 
. 28.7 » 
Height of crista sterni . . . 
7.0 
» 
Length of manus . . . . 
. 33.0 » 
Length of coracoideum . . . 
28.7 
Length of metacarpus . . 
. 17.5 » 
Length of scapula .... 
38.0 
Length of digitus princip. . 
. 14.0 » 
Length of clavicula .... 
28.0 
» 
Length of femur . . . . 
. 48.0 » 
Length of pelvis 
50.0 
» 
Length of tibia .... 
Length of fibida . . . . 
. 66.0 » 
. 22.8 * 
Greatest breadth of do. . . . 
29.0 
» 
Distribution. Minahassa (Voy. Astr. 
a I, Meyer d 3, Fischer a 5, etc.)-, Gorontalo (Porsten 1, 
Meyer d 3)\ Togian Is. (Meyer d 3)-, (?) Bonthain Peak, 8. Celebes (Dob 
erty fide 
Hartert e 1). 
Variation. The female from the Togian Islands in the Dresden Museum corresponds with 
adults from North Celebes in coloration, hut the hill is yellowish white at the end, 
the under mandible being entirely of this colour except towards the base, where it 
becomes hlacldsh. The feet are also paler. Several specimens from Celebes itself 
also offer some amount of pale colour on the bill. Hartert finds his specimens from 
Bonthain somewhat different. 
2. Pyrrhoeentor celebensis rufescens M, & W'g. 
. Abh. Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 2, p. 11; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1897, 160, 164. 
“Kung-knng”, Tonkean, Nat. Coll. 
Diagnosis. Differs from the typical fonn in having the face, neck, throat and breast light 
cinnamon-rufous, instead of wood-brown ; head above clearer brown ; mantle and wing- 
coverts redder brown. 
Measurements. Wing 17.6 — 185 mm; tail 265—325; tarsus c. 46; bill from nostril 26 — 31. 
Distribution. Eastern and Southern Peninsulas, Celebes; Tonkean (Nat. Coll.), Macassar 
(Wallace a 6, Doherty); Tanetto, Mandalh, Maros (Meyer d 3); (if the same) 
Dongala, W. Coast (Doherty). 
Observation. Seven sijechnens of this well-marked race were obtained by native collectors at 
Tonkean in the eastern [)art of the E. Peninsula. Meyer (d 3) when in Celebes 
remarked: “the South Celebean specimens aj)peared to me, when I first saw them, 
somewhat more brilliantly coloured than those of North Celebes, but aftenvards, when 
I compared the skins in the cabinet, T could find no difference.” There are now no 
specimens from the south in the Dresden Museum, but Mr. Hartert has recently 
received two from the low country north of Macassar, which “are hardly different 
from P. c. riifescms”, and two skins from Dongala on the west coast which “resemble 
very much the co-types of P. c. rufescens", but “are a little paler and loss rufous 
above where they look more like P. c. celebemiP. A third skin from Dongala was 
aberrant. It still remains to be proved therefore Avhether these birds are intermediate: 
P. celebensis — rufescens, or what. 
The genus Pyrrhoeentor was established in 1862 by Cabanis and Heine 
for this species and P. unirufus C. & H. (cl), with the former for type. To 
