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Future explorations of tlie adjoining islands and larger series of P. irena must dei-ide 

 whether we have to keep the Djampea form as a species or as a subspecies. Of 

 Pitta irena I have on I3' seen two skins, one in the Tring Museum and one in I hi' 

 British Museum. 



From Piitn vigorsi, from Banda, I)ammar, Timorlaut, if is distinguished l)y 

 some black on the chin (there is iwne in P. virjorsi), and by a differently coloured 

 superciliary stripe, also slightly different dimensions ; from P. concinna, from 

 Lombock and Flores, also by a differently coloured superciliary stripe, wliich in the 

 latter passes into a very pale blue behind the eye, and by much less black on the 

 throat. Pitta vigm'si, irena, and concinna are different from each other, but at 

 least as closely allied as P. virrjinalis to any of its congeners. Wishing to have 

 a comparison made with the type, I sent a skin of my new species and our skin 

 of P. irena to Dr. Biittikofer, who informed me that the latter entirely agreed with 

 the type, while the one from Djampea "was unlike any Pitta in the Leyden Museum," 

 where they have all the allied forms. 



29. Macropteryx wallacei (Gould). 

 Both sexes from Saleyer. Xot different fmm Celebes specimens. 



30. Collocalia esculenta (!>.). 



Two females from Kalao. Wing in both 93 mm. long, which is considerably 

 .shorter than in oiu' Celebes specimens. See Mey. & Wiglesw., t.c. No. '2, [1. 14, 

 where measurements from G9 to lOl'G mm. are given, and anted, p. 158. 



31. Collocalia francica (Gm.). 



Two fully-feathered nestlings and a number of nests and eggs from Pulau Batu, 

 Djampea, taken on December 6th, 1895. At this date nests contained eggs (always 

 two each), and young in all stages. The ne.sts are good white " edible" ones, some 

 (probably older ones) being less white, two nests or more often hanging together. 

 The eggs, being large in proportion to the bird, measure 19'8 bv 13'4, 20-4 by 129, 

 19 by 13'3 mm. The wings of the nestlings are not measurable. The tarsi have a 

 few scanty feathers on them ; the rump is of a pale brownish grey, not very olnious. 

 It is a pity there is no adult liird with them. 



32. Caprimulgus macrvirus Horsf. 



Atypical viale from Saleyer, wing 184 mm.; n fi'nialr, wing 178 mm., and a 

 nestling from Djampea. 



33. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



Saleyer and Djampea. The bills measure as follows (from anterior end of nostril 

 to tip) : d Saleyer, 40 mm. ; S Saleyer, 37 mm. ; c^ Djampea, 41 mm. ; ? Djampea, 

 39'5 mm. On the whole the specimens from Celebes, and the islands north and east 

 of it, seem to be somewhat short-beaked ; but the individual variation is very great, 

 even in the same country. See Mey. A Wigl., t. c. No. 2, ]). 12, 189(). 



34. Alcedo ispidoides I -ess, 

 Saleyer and Djampea. 



