Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
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Distribution. Talaut Is. — Karkellang and Kabruang (Nat. Coll.); Peling and Banggai 
(Nat. Coll.); Sula Islands (Allen c 1, 1, 5); Djampea (Everett 7); Timor (Wallace 1) 
and the Moluccas (Salvadori 2) to Aru, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands and 
Duke of York Island (Salvad. 2). 
Observations. A specimen from the Sula Islands in the British Museum and another from 
the same locality in the Tristram Collection are identified with this species by 
Dr. Sharpe and Canon Tristram. 
Latterly a score of specimens collected in Talaut in the autumn of 1893, 
1894, and 1896 have been sent to the Dresden Museum, and curiously enough they 
do not agree with the Sangi race, M. commutatus, hut arc hke the Eastern form. 
A few specimens from Peling and Banggai are more suffused with chestnut- 
rufous below and paler grey on the head and face than those of Talaut, Djampea, 
Aru, and others labelled “? Moluccas”. 
Two from Djampea are darker grey on the throat and breast t.ha.n one 
from Aru. 
Salvadori includes Meyer’s M. geelvinkiamis and fuscescens in the synonymy 
of M. inoj-natus, a species which might some day perhaps he split up into 20 geo- 
grapliical races with three or more names attached to each — if any good purpose 
were served by so doing. Individual variation in this species seems to he confined 
within somewhat narrow limits. 
It may safely he assumed to have spread its range by flight. Its absence on 
the mainland of Celebes is very curious. 
* 137. MONAROHA EVERETTI Hart. 
Djampea Black-and-white Flycatcher. 
Plate XVII. 
Monarcha everetti (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 173, 182. 
Adult male. Upper surface, including face, throat and jugulum black, glossed with 
steel-blue; rump and upper tail-covcrts, body below, under wing-coverts 
and remiges where they rest upon the body white; thighs black, with some 
white tips to the feathers; tail black, white at the concealed base, the lateral 
feathers white for the terminal half, the wliite decreasing to a tip of a few mm in 
the 4*’' pair and disappearing on the middle pair [(f , Dec. 1895, Djampea Id.: 
Everett — C 14871). 
“Iris dark brown; bill and legs fight blue; claws dark grey” — Everett 1. 
Immature [male]. Mantle cinereous grey (H. 1). 
Measurements. “Length about 14 cm; wing 66 — 69 mm; tail about 70 — 72; tarsus 19; culmen 
16 — 17” (Hartert 1). 
Female. Entirely different from the male: “Above cinereous grey, slightly washed with 
brown. Lores whitish. A spot behind the eye pale whitish grey. Wings dark 
brown, inner webs white towards the base. No white on rump and upper tail-coverts; 
tail as in the male. Under surface whitish, washed with pale orange-rufous, especially 
on the breast; abdomen almost white. Thighs pale brownish, under wing-coverts and 
axillaries dii'ty white. Iris chocolate; bill pale lead-blue, black at aj)ex; legs dark 
slate-blue; claws blackish” (Hartert). 
Distribution. Djampea Island between Celebes and Flores. 
Meyer & Wigl e s-woitli, Birds of Celebes (Nov. 4tk 1897). 
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