( Ifil ) 



73. Trichoglossus ornatus (L.)- 



liKlnilainaii. r? ad. " Iris orange; bill orange-red; feet greenish grev ; nails 

 (laik brown." 



7-1. Pisorhina manadensis ((}uoy & Gaim.). 

 ludrulanian. c?. October 189.5. "Iris oehreous orange ; eere pale brownish; 

 bill olivaceous horn ; feet brownish white ; claws horn-vellow, the longer ones brown 

 on the distal half." 



75. Ninox punctulata (iaoy & Gaim. 



Thvee males from Indrulaman and Jlaka^sar. "Iris dark chocolate ; bill horn- 

 black; tip and mandible pale horn-colour; feet white; claws dark brown." In the 

 two other specimens the bill is greenish horn-colour, lilackish towards the base. 



The male with the dark bill is of a deep blackish chocolate-colour above ; the 

 whitish spots incline to cross-bars only on the back and upper wing-coverts; the 

 markings on the breast and abdomen are very deep brown. The other two mitkn 

 are of a paler brown above ; the dark colour on the brea.st and abdomen is more 

 rufous brown ; the pale markings above are more like cross-bars, and in one they are 

 really short cross-bars everywhere. When .Sharpe described the species in Cat. B. 

 Vol. II. p. 183, he said that the whitish spots "inclined to bars nowhere excei)t 

 on the secondaries, and here very minute." However, such specimens seem to lie 

 rarer than those where there are cross-markings. 



76. Strix rosenbergi Schleg. 



Indrulaman and Makassar. 



(J. "Iris white; bill horn-white, clouded with brown in the middle of the 

 maxilla ; feet dirty bi-ownish white ; claws dark brown." 



This fine owl seems to stand, by its large size as well as by its richly spotted 

 underside and other colour-character.s, farther away from Strix flanimea iypica than 

 any of its other numerous subspecies, and may probably well be kept specifically 

 distinct. The wing of our females is 330 mm. long, that of our male 320. 



77. Spilornis rufipectus Gould. 



Makassar, Indrulaman, and Bonthain Peak, up to about (!(»()() feet above the sea. 



c? ad. " Iris golden yellow ; bill black, basal portion plumbeous grey ; mandible 

 plumbeous grey, its apical portion black; cere dirty greenish; eyelids dark yellow; 

 skin of loral region yellow ; legs wax-yellow ; claws black." 



c? juv. " Iris golden yellow ; loral skin yellow ; legs dark wax-vellow ; claws 

 black." 



The colour of the breast varies in the old bird, it being much paler in some, 

 in fact as pale as in Spilornis siilaeiisis, darker in others. The whole throat and 

 ear-coverts are deep black in an apparently freshly moulted bird. 



Mr. Everett procured, during October 1895, fullv adult birds, ((uite young ones, 

 and others in change of plumage. 



There seem to me not to be sufficient reasons to separate the Sula birds 

 specifically. They can only form a subspecies, those from Peling and Banggai (of 

 which I have now five before me) standing between the two forms anil hardly ln'ing 

 sejiaralile from Spilornis rufipectus. See Meyer & Wiglesw., Abli.. and Her. Mus. 

 Dresden, No. 1, p. 7, 1896. 



