REPORT ON THE BIRDS— THE MOLUCCAS AND THE ARROU ISLANDS. 67 



The birds from Ki Islands are 25, representing 14 species. They have been all 

 collected at the little island named Dulan. 1 



The Ki Islands were quite unknown to naturalists before Wallace made a short stay 

 there of six days in January 1857. He only obtained 13 species in all, 2 which were 

 catalogued, together with those from the Arrou Islands, by Mr G. R. Gray. 3 Von Rosen- 

 berg made a longer stay on the Ki Islands, and collected there rather extensively ; but 

 no complete catalogue of his collection has been published. He gave an account of his 

 visit to the Ki Islands, and of some of the birds collected there by him, in his Reis naar 

 de Zuidoostereilanden gedaan en 1865, pp. 67-83. 



Dr Beccari, in 1873, made a rather large collection of birds in the Ki Islands. Of 

 this some of the new species have been already described by me ; 4 but I propose to give 

 a complete account of it as soon as my occupations permit. 5 



1. Pandion leucocephalus, Gould. 



Pandion leucocephalus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 138 ; id. B. Austr., vol. i., pi. vi., 1848 

 Sharpe, Cat. Acciptr., p. 451, 1874; Sal vad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 86. 



[No. 268. Male. Eyes yellow ; legs whitish ; bill black. Stomach contained fish. 

 Shot by Lieut. Channer ; no others were seen. Shot far in the bush from the shore.] 



2. Geoffroyus keyensis, Schleg. 



Psittacus capistratus, G. R. Gr. (nee Bechst.), Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 183 (?), Ki Islands 



(type examined). 

 Eclectus personatus (partim), Schleg.Ned Tijdsclir. Dierk., vol. iii. p. 332 (A. grande forme (partim), 



p. 333), 1866; id. Mus. P.-B., Psittaei, Revue, p. 18 {jpariim), 1875. 

 Pionias rhodops (partim), Finsch, Die Papag., vol. ii. pp. 388, 955, 1868. 

 Geoffroyus keyensis, Schleg. MS., Finsch, Die Papag., voL ii. p. 956 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen., vol. x. p. 29, sp. 37, 1877 ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 86, et Ann. Mus. Civ. di Genova, 



vol. xiv. p. 638. 



[No 271, male; 269, 270, females. Eyes white; upper mandible red in the male, 

 both black in the females. Stomach contained seeds and fruits.] 



Three specimens, a young male (No. 271) in transitional plumage, an adult female (No. 

 270) with the head pale brown olive, and a not fully adult female (No. 269) with the 

 head conspicuously tinged with green. 



1 Cosmos di Guido Cora, vol. ii., tav. ii., 1874. 



2 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), vol. xx. p. -17:5. 1 857. 



3 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, pp. 169-198. 



4 Xuove specie di uccelli delle Isole Arrou e Kei, raccolte da Odoardo Beccari (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. vi. pp. 

 73-80, 1874) ; Altre nuove specie di uccelli raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Signor L. M. DAlbertis e nelle Isole Arrou 

 e Kei dal Dott. 0. Beccari (op. cit., vol. vi. pp. 308-314) ; Descrizione di sei nuove specie di uccelli delle Moluche. 

 delle Kei e delle Isole Arrou (op. cit, vol. vii. pp. 983-990, 1875). 



5 [Professor Salvadori has since published this memoir under the title " Catalogo degli uccelli delle Isole Kei," in 

 the Annali del Mus. Civ. di St. Nat, di Genova, vol. xiv., August 1879.— P. L. S.] 



