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List of a collection of birds made in the Sula Islands by William Doherty

1898; Natural History Museum at Tring; Volume: 5; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.1648

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Ernst Hartert,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

ly/rii.nOIIERTY, in Octolier and November 1897, collected on tlie islands of -'-'-'-Sula Maugoli and Sula Besi, the eastern and tljc sontheni islands of the Sula gronp.The collection of birdskins he sent contains all the birds hitherto known to be restricted to the Snla Islands, and almost all the species known to occur there, besides some striking new species and a few other additions.Onr previous knowledge of the avifauna of the Sula group is but scant.The Leyden Museum possesses good material sent home by some of the Dutch travellers in former years, and Wallace's assistant, Mr. Allen, collected there.The latter collections were duly recorded by Wallace in Proc.Zonl.Sot:.Loud.1862.pp.333 -34f) (see also plates xxxviii., xxsix., xl.).Recently Messrs. A. B. Meyer & Wiglesworth recorded a collection from Peling and Banggai, between Celebes and the Sula Islands {Abk.DreMlen Museum 1896 -7.No. 2).The ornis of these two islands is essentially that of the Sula group.I follow, in this list, the arrangement which will, I believe, be iidoi)ted by Messrs. A. B. Meyer & Wiglesworth in their forthcoming great work on the Birds of Celebes, in (irder that my article can with greater convenience lie compared with their lists.1. Spilornis rufipectus sulaensis (Schl.).I very much doubt the possibility of keeping this subspecies distinct from S. rufipectus rufipectus of Celebes.The differences said to exist in the Gat.B. Jhif.Ahm.I. do not occur, and the spotting (or barring) of the abdomen varies as mucli as the colour of the chest, wiiich in one specimen from Makassar is even paler than in one from Sula Mangoli.?ad." Iris lemon-yellow ; cere orange-ochreons ; feet pale dull ochreous, claws black ; bill pale bluish horn-colour, tip black."Doherty collected specimens in Sula Maugoli and Sula Besi.2. Astur soloensis (Horsf j.Two adult /««/«.<and an immature mate, Sula Mangoli, November 18'.»7.The old males are rather pale rufous on the breast.There may be several subspecies of this bird, but I am not able to discuss them.The adult male has the " iris crimson-brown, witli an outer yellowish line ; the feet ochreous, with black claws ; the bill black, cere orange."