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Birds of Celebes: Musoicairidae. 
GENUS STOPAROLA Blyth. 
These Flycatchers are distinguishable by their grey-blue or verditer colo- 
ration, the males ditfering from the females by their black lores. The wing 
formula is very like that of Siphia, from which it differs chiefly by the bill, 
which is shorter, though equally broad at the base, and the tarsus is also relative- 
ly a little shorter. The irlumage of the rump and flanks seems to be of a 
softer and thicker character. The male has a sweet song (Legge, Sarasins). 
The genus is found from Afghanistan to the Philippines, Celebes, and Java. 
* 128. STOPAROLA SEPTENTRIONALIS Biitt. 
North Celebesian Blue Flycatcher. 
Plate XV. 
Stoparola septentrionalis (1) Blittik., Notes Leyd. Mas. 1893, 169; (2) M. & ^Y g., Abli. Mus. 
Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 9; (3) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 5. 
Description. Biittikofer 1. 
Male. Verditer-blue, paling into whitish on the abdomen and white on the under tail-coverts. 
Forehead and superciliary stripe, and up})er throat bright pale blue; lores jet-black; 
angle of chin at the gonys blackish; remiges and tail dusky, washed externally with 
the verditer-blue of the back; wing and tail below dusky, the under wing-coverts 
(except the outer ones) and the inner edges of the remiges white: bill black, legs 
and feet dark in skin (cf, Mt. Lokon, N. Cel., 1. VII. 91: Sarasin Coll.). 
Female. Like the male, but vutbout the black lores (though the feathers here have black 
bases), the bright superciliary stripe hardly at all pronounced, and there is less bright 
light blue on the forehead and upper throat; the blue on the upper surface, throat, 
and breast a shade darker and duller (§, Tomohon, 4. VI. 94: Sarasin CoU.). 
Nestling. Remiges and rectricos (half-grown) as in the adult; head and neck blackish, each 
feather with a tawny subterminal spot; remaining upper parts dull bluish grey with 
duller tawny spots; under parts whitish washed with tawny, brighter tawny on breast, 
all the feathers with U-shaped margins of blackish: bill yellowish, browner above ((^ ?. 
Tomohon, 13. XL 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) cf ad. Tomohon, 3. V. 94 .... 
70 
53 
16 
8 
h. (C 13898) rf ad. Tomohon, 6. V. 94 (P. & F. S.) . . 
71 
51 
16 
8 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) ad. Mt. Lokon, 1. VII. 94 . . . 
74 
55 
16 
— 
d. (Sarasin Coll.) o’ ad. Mt. Masarang, 25. IV. 94 . . 
73 
54 
__ 
7.5 
e. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 8. IV. 94 
71 
52 
15.5 
8 
f. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 4. VI. 94 
70 
50 
— 
7.5 
g. (Sarasin Coll.) Q Tomohon, 18. X. 94 
69 
48 
— 
7.5 
Nest. Of small roots, moss, and fibres, lined with hair-like vegetable fibres; 
stated by the 
finder to have been situated in grass: in shape a flat hemisiJiere, the cup 45 mm 
diam. by 35 deep, the walls about 35 thick (see plate: Tomohon, 8. June 1894: 
Sarasin Coll.). 
Distribution. North Celebes — Minahassa, Tondano (von Rosenberg 1), Manado District 
(v. Duivenbode 1), Tomohon, Mt. Masarang and Mt. Lokon (P. & F. Sarasin). 
