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springing from the forehead — -a feature which, among the Austro-Malayan species, is only 

 to be found in Dicrurus pectoralis, Wall., from the Sulu Islands. 1 



8. Philemon plumiyenis, G. R. Gr. 



Tropidorhynchus plumigenus, G. R. Gr., Proc. ZooL Soc, 1858, pp. 174, 191, Ki Islands (type 



examined). 

 Philemon plumigenis, Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 88, et Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. xiv. 



p. 655. 



[No. 276, male ; 277, sex uncertain. Eyes brown. Stomach contained seeds.] 

 Both are young birds, with the feathers of the sides of the breast with broad yellow 

 edges, and with the outer edges of the remiges tinged with olive. 



9. Calornis metallica, Temm. 



Lamprotornis metallicus, Temm., PI. Col., 266, 1821, Amboyna (type examined). 



Calornis viridescens, G. R Gr., Proc. Zool Soc, 1858, p. 181, Arrou Islands (type examined). 



Calornis nitida, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 181, New Ireland (type examined). 



Calornis amboinensis, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 182, Amboyna (type examined). 



Calornis gidaris, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1861, p. 431, Mysol (type examined). 



Calornis purpurascens, G. R. Gr., Hand-list, vol. ii. p. 26, No. 6377 (1870), Goram (type 



examined). 

 Calornis metallica, Salvad., Proc. Zool, Soc, 1878, p. 88, et Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. xiv. 



p. 656. 



[No. 284. Female. Eyes red. Stomach contained seeds; caught by Suhm in a 

 spiders web.] 



One fully adult "female" (No. 284), resembling a fully adult male. 



This species has been found in nearly all the Moluccan and Papuan Islands, from the 

 Sulu Islands westward to the Soloman Islands eastwards, and lives also in the northern 

 part of Australia. 



Temminck, in the text of the Planches Coloriees, says that his Lamprotornis 

 metallicus was from Timor and Celebes ; but this seems to be a mistake, as the typical 

 specimens in the Museum of Leyden, examined by me, are from Amboyna, In Celebes 

 and in Timor lives another species of the genus Calornis, and not Calornis metallica. 



Specimens from the different localities do not differ specifically ; those from Cape 

 York are somewhat more purplish, but not always in the same way ; one from Goram, 

 a small island near Amboyna (Calornis purpurascens, Gray), is exactly like some 

 specimens from Cape York. 



1 I think that the Au6tro-Malayan species may be more properly referred to a peculiar genus, which I propose 

 to call Dicruropsis, characterised as follows : — Eostrum crassum, rostro specierum generis Dissemvri simile, sed culmine 

 minus acuto, crassiusculo ; cauda hifida divaricata, rectricibus extimis snperne introrsum paullum convolutis. 



