Birds of Celebes: Musoicapidae. gg^y 
The genus Myiagra is an Australasian type, most plentifully represented in 
Papuasia and the Melanesian Islands. The present species is probably most 
nearly related to M.fulviventris Sclat. of Timorlaut, which differs by its fulvous 
belly and under wing-coverts. M. albiventiis (Pealc) of Samoa has, as Hartert 
points out, black lores, a larger bill and less rufous below, so distinguishing itself 
from this Tenimber form. 
GENUS CULICICAPA Swinh. 
Ihese little Ilycatchers have the bill as broad and fiat as Myiagra, but 
more pointed and triangular, the rictal bristles are large, nearly as long as the 
bill. The tail is square, shorter than the wing, the quill-formula much as in 
Myiagra-, the middle toe and claw slightly shorter than the tarsus. They are 
well characterized by their principal colours of yellow and yellow-olive, and 
the sexes are similar. Only two species are known, with a -range from the 
Himalayas to the Philippines and Celebes. 
139. CULICICAPA HELIANTHEA (Wall.). 
Wallace’s Yellow Flycatcher. 
a. Muscicapa helianthea (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1865, 476; (2) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 321; (3) 
Eosenb. , Malay. Archip. 273. 
h. Myialestes helianthea (I) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Till, 66, pi. 7, fig. 1; (2) Briiggem., 
Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 68; (3) Wallace, Island Life 1880, 433; (4) Guillem.' 
P. Z. S. 1885, 552. ’ 
Culicicapa helianthea (1) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 135; (2) Sharpe, Cat. B. TV, 
1879, 370; (3) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Yr. 8, p. 9; (4) iid., ib. 1896*, 
Nr. 2, p. 14; (5) Grant, Ibis 1896, 543; (6) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 157 171- 
[7) id., ib. 1897, 158; (8J Grant, Ibis 1897, 227. 
c. Xantholestes helianthea (1) Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 1877, (2) I, 327. 
d. Xantholestes panayensis (1) Sharpe, Tr. L. Soc. 1877, (2) I, 327. 
e. Culicicapa panayensis (1) Sharpe, Oat. B. IT, 1879, 371; (2J Steere, List Ooll. B. & M. 
Phihpp. 1890, 16; (3) Bourns & Worces., B. Menage Exped. 1894, 41; (4) Grant. 
Ibis 1894, 506; (5) id., ib. 1895, 443. 
“Koko intiwoho”, Manado Distr., Nat. Ooll. 
“Tangkui mosoni”, Banggai, Nat. Coll. 
Figure and descriptions. Walden b I] Wallace a 1-, Briiggemann b 2', Sharpe 2. 
Adult. Above olive-green-yellow, darkest on the crown, becoming bright yellow on the 
rump; quills and tail-feathers blackish, the outer webs hinged with greenish 
ochre; lores yellow; ear-coverts yellower than the cro’wn; chin, throat and 
remaining under parts lemon -yellow, purest and lightest on chin, throat, under 
wing-coverts and flanks, dirtier on the breast and sides (Lotta near Manado 8. V. 93: 
Nat. Coll. — 0 12279). 
“Iris dark brown; maxilla dark sepia, mandible ochraceous orange; legs and 
claws light sepia, soles of feet yellow” — Everett 6. 
Sexes. Similar in coloration (Briiggem. h 2, Hartert 6). 
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