42 KOVITATES ZOOLOUICAE XXII. 1915. 



23. Centropus bernsteinii Schleg. 



Ceiitropus Bermleinii Schlegel, Ne,l Tijihch: v. Dkrkuiuk iii. p. 251 (1866 -uo locality ; id. oji. cit. 

 iv. p. 11 (1871— Sal watti!). 



This appears to be a somewhat rare species generally. Schlegel stated that 

 Bernstein discovered it on Salwatti; this locality has so far not been corroborated, 

 though the late A. B. Meyer acquired a s])ecimen said to have come from Sal- 

 watti. The locality of Wallace's specimens is uncertain I We had specimens from 

 the Sattelberg, Stephausort, and from the Upper Setekwa River. 



We received 9 adnlt males and females and a semi-adnlt male from Vulcan 

 Island, collected in December 1913. (Nos. 6289, 6381, 6391, C416, 6441, 6478, 6489, 

 649U, 6495, 6496.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black." 



Wings, males and females, 180-201 mm. 



Unless half our specimens are wrongly sexed, the sexes are perfectly alike, 

 females at least as large as males. 



Four eggs, evidently all from incomplete clutches, found at various dates iu 

 December on Vulcan Island, are white, almost without any gloss, shining through 

 creamy white when held against the light. They measure 36-6 x 29, 38 x 27-6, 

 35-5 X 28-3, 33-1 X 27-4 mm. The last is even less glossy than the others, and 

 perhaps a badly developed, unfertile egg, being so much smaller than the rest. 



24. Eudynamis orientalis rufiventer (Less.). 



Anteu, p. 31. 



6 c? c?, ? ? , Vulcan Island, November and December 1913. (Nos. 6277, 6283, 

 6306, 6341, 6347, 6394, 6395, 6440, 6447, 0449, 6457.) 



Wings of males 188-199, of females 187-193 mm. 



25. Cuculus optatus Gould. 



Anieu, p. 32. 



A bright reddish female, Vulcan Island, 1. i. 1914. (No. 6497.) " Iris brownish 

 yellow." 



26. Cacomantis sepulcralis assimilis (Gray). 

 AnteA, p. 32. 



2 SS ad., 4 juv., Vulcan Island, December 1913, January 1914. (Nos. 6329, 

 6373, 6378, 6463, 6498, 6504.) 



27. Chrysococcyx malayanus poecilurus Gray. 



Antea, p. 32. 



(? juv., Vnlcan Island, 14. xii. 1913. (No. 6433.) " Iris dark brown ; bill black ; 

 feet slate-blue." 



28. Tanysiptera hydrocharis vulcani snbsp. nov. 



(See aitleu, p. 32.) 



A series from Vulcan Island is distinctly larger than eleven adult birds of 

 T. hydrocharis meyeri from German New Guinea and Takar (Konstantinhafen and 



