Lord Walden on a new Species of Trichostoma. 377 
ding page he had already shortly described a Bornean bird, 
which, with some doubt, he identified as being the true Na- 
pothera umbratilis, Temm. (a manuscript title). Both species 
were among some birds purchased by Mr. Wilson from M. 
Verreaux, and which the latter gentleman, according to Mr. 
Strickland, had confounded together, as both bore on their 
labels Temminck’s MS. title already cited. Ever since it has 
been a matter of great difficulty in Europe to determine 
the species Mr. Strickland had before him, and which he 
named 7. celebense—for the reason that the types of both 
the Bornean and Celebean species went to America, that 
the description of T. umbratile apud Strickland is very brief, 
while that of T. celebense consists of nothing more than a 
few words setting forth in what respect it differs from the 
Bornean bird (a species not even now determined), and that 
the figures of both birds are neither drawn nor coloured 
satisfactorily. 
But so long as only one species of the genus Trichostoma 
was known to inhabit Celebes, and that species agreed suffi- 
ciently well with Strickland’s brief description, that species 
was, naturally enough, referred to T. celebense; and a single 
example, obtained at Macassar by Mr. Wallace, was thus 
identified by me (Tr. Z. 8. viii. p. 61). 
Since then I have received from North Celebes several 
examples of a species of Trichostoma widely differing from 
what I supposed to be 7’. celebense ; and it becomes therefore 
necessary to decide which of the two species best agrees with 
Strickland’s account and figure of T. celebense. Dr. Otto 
Finsch has also sent me for determination an example of this 
genus, marked as being a male, obtained by Captain Conrad 
in the district of Macassar. This bird differs but slightly 
from the one obtained by Mr. Wallace, now in the British 
Museum. After comparing the two species with Strickland’s 
description and figure, I have little doubt that the Menado, 
and not the Macassar bird, supplied the type of T. celebense, 
Strickl.: consequently the Macassar form requires to be dis- 
tinguished by a separate title; and for it I propose that of 
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