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14. Oriolus bonerateusis Mcy. i*i: ^^'it<l. 



Ahh. Wild Bev. Mus. Dresden, 1896, ^'o. 1, p. Ifi (January 189fi). P'ound in Djampea 

 aiifl Kalao, but more numerous in Kalao. Tliis large Oriole has been well charac- 

 terised by the authors, who had one female from Bonerate, collected by IMessrs. 

 Sarasin; but it is perhaps nearer to 0. hroderipi than one might have imagined 

 from their description. The size of the bill in 0. hroderipi varies considerably, as 

 does the length of the wing. So does also the width of the black surrounding the 

 crown, but there always remains a considerably larger yellow spot on the crown in 

 0. honeratensis, the bill is always larger, and the black surrounding the crown is 

 narrower. The speculum on the wing is mostly larger than in 0. hroderipi, but 

 smaller in some (not all) females. The primaries do not have yellow tips, as they 

 have in 0. hroderipi, liut the secondaries are tipped with yellow, though the latter 

 varies very much in extent, is wider and more greenish in sovae females and (probably 

 younger) males, and is wanting in a few of the females. The yellow tips to the 

 secondaries, however, are larger in 0. hroderipi. The extent of black on the rectrices 

 varies much, as in 0. hroderipi, though it is generally extended more towards the 

 tips, but the central rectrices are also tijiped with yellow, as in 0. })rodxripi, in every 

 one of the large series before me. 



The colour is of a pti.re and perfect orantje in some specimens ; in others some 

 feathers are orange, others yellow; in some the whole plumage is washed with yellow, 

 while others are of a pure lemon-yellow without a shade of orange, and of the latter 

 some have the mantle faintly tinged with greenish. These variations in colour are 

 either due to age or perhaps to food, but not to sex or locality, specimens from Kalao 

 being perfectly similar to those from Djampea. Herr Hofrath Meyer has kindly 

 compared some of my birds with his type of O. honeratensis, and declared it to be 

 the same bird. The wing measures 162 — 178 mm., the tail 123 — 133, the tarsus 

 26 — 29, the culmen 36 — 38. The sexes are alike, unless many are wrongly sexed. 



6 . " Iris deep cinnabar-red ; bill white, tinged with ro.sy red ; feet dark olivaceous 

 grey." ?. "Iris crimson-lake; liill horn-white, tinged with rose-colour; feet dark 

 lead-grey." 



lo. Pachycephala teysmanni Kiutik. (Notes Leyd. Mvs. XV. p. IGT). 



A series from Saleyer only. d. "Iris brown; bill jet-black ; legs and feet with 

 claws dark grey." Ur. Biittikofer has kindly compared one of our males with his type, 

 and found them to be quite alike. He described it from South Celebes. P\urther 

 researches must show whether it occurs there too, or whether it is restricted to 

 Saleyer. 



The female resembles the viale, but the white of the throat does not extend so 

 far down towards the breast ; the top of the head is not dark slaty-grey but palei- 

 grey, the lores tinged with ochraceous, the ear-coverts pale fawn-colour with paler 

 shafts. Wing 73 mm. A very young male, just out of nesi, resembles the old 

 female; but the breast and abdomen are white streaked with dark brown, the mantle 

 washed with brown. In the fully adult male in fresh plumage the ear-coverts are 

 darker than the crown, in fact almost black. 



The female of I'. teysm,anni resembles mnch ihc female of P. everetti, hut the 

 latter has a larger bill, the head not clear grey, the liack and rump not so greenish. 

 The mates are, as a comparison of the descrijrfions will show, entirely ditlerent, the 



