Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
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Mr. Biittikofer remarks that as to colour this species may be best com- 
pared with melamps (Vig.) of India, from which it differs in having the inner 
web of the tail-feathers black instead of blue, and in its size being much smaller. 
A note of von Rosenberg’s says it is “frequently seen in brushwood and low 
trees, living upon insects”. 
With this species and the next was made the interesting addition of another 
Oriental Flycatcher-genus to the avifauna of Celebes, a Muscicapidine form not 
known in the Australian Region. The genus ranges from the Himalayas as far 
as Afghanistan, east to South China, the Philqjpines, Celebes, and Java. 
ihe Saras ins have added much to what is known of this species. They 
obtained a nice series of specimens, with the sex properly ascertained, showing 
the difference between the male and the female; also a nest containing the two 
nestling's shown in the plate. Like its near relation, S. meridionalis Biittik. , of 
South Celebes, it appears to be an inhabitant of the hill-country. 
* 129. STOPAROLA MERIDIONALIS Butt. 
South Celebesian Blue Flycatcher. 
Stoparola meridionalis (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 170; (2) id., Zool. Erg. 
Weber’s Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, HI, 278; (3) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 158; (4) 
id., ib. 1897, 158. 
Male. Similar to S. septentrionalis , but larger, of a darker and duller blue, especially on 
the throat and breast; the bright liglit blue on the forehead, superciliary region and 
upper throat less extensive: “iris deep chestnut; feet black; beak black” (Doherty 4); 
(cf, c. 6000 ft on Lompobatang, 8. 061., 14. X. 95, Sarasin Coll). 
Female. Similar to the male, but the lores not black, being blackish -with blue tips to the 
feathers; size a little smaller (Q, Bonthain Peak, 6000 ft., Oct. 95: Everett — 
0 14887). 
Young. Above ta'wny, 'with black edges to the feathers and blackish bases; "wings and tail 
blackish washed with verditer-blue, as in the adult, wing-coverts ti 2 :)ped with ta'wny; 
under parts tawny on breast, paler on throat and abdomen, udth marginal U-shaped 
bars of blackish, almost completely absent on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts 
buff-white (rf juv., 1200 m, near Loka, 8. Cel, 13. X. 95; 8arasin Coll). 
ments. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostril 
a. (Sarasin Coll) cf, Lompobatang, 14. X. 95 . . . 
79 
66 
17 
8 
b. (Sarasin Coll.) (J', Loka, 11. X. 95 
81 
60 
17 
8 
c. fC 14886) cf, Bonthain Peak, X. 95 (Everett) . . . 
81 
62 
17 
— 
d. (C 14887) Q, Bonthain Peak, X. 95 (Everett) . . . 
76 
55 
17 
8 
e. (Sarasin Coll) cf juv. near Loka, 13. X. 95 . . . 
77 
56 
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Distribution. South Celebes: Macassar District (Teijsmann i); Mt. Bonthain and its neigh- 
bourhood (Weber 2, Everett 5, P. & E. Sarasin, Doherty 4). 
This species is as yet definitely known only from high elevations, 4000 to 
10 000 feet, on the Bonthain mass of mountains. The Drs. Sarasin write: 
