( KiT ) 



2. Phylloscopus borealis (Ula.'^.). 

 Saleyer, one sjiecimen ; Kalao, two specimens. 



3. Dicaeum splendidum Biittik. {Notes Leyd. Mus. t.c). 



A series of both sexes from ])j<impea. The principal differences from D. iiMckloti 

 are the coloui' of the throat, which is mucli lighter, more vermilion, and extends 

 farther down on the breast, and the greatly diminished dark surroundings of the 

 red throat. They are broad and deep Ijlack in D. 'inaddoi'i, while they are blackish 

 grey and narrow in D. splendidum. The colour of the back varies and is not 

 constantly different in the two species. My birds have been compared with the 

 type in Leyden. 



The female is dark olive-grey above and on the sides of neck and head; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts vermilion ; the wings bluish black, with narrow olive outer 

 edges ; tail bluish lilack. Below creamy white. A.x.illaries, under wing-coverts, 

 and inner wing-lining white. Wing 51 — 52 mm. The immature male is like the 

 female. 



S. "Iris dark brown; bill black; mandible grey, palest at base; feet and 

 claws very dark grey, almost black." ? . " Iris dark brown ; basal portion of maxilla 

 and two-thirds of mandible dull orange ; feet and claws greyish black." 



Dr. Biittikofer described this species from Makassar! (See Cinnyris teysmanni, 

 lihipidura celebensis.) 



4. Cinnyris frenata dissentiens Hartert (anter!, p. 152). 



As mentioned above, there are five skins from Saleyer, four adult males and one 

 immature mtde, which are paler below than my type from Indrulaman, but 1 have 

 only one from the latter place in the most perfect and freshest plumage, while those 

 from Saleyer are not in such fresh plumage. However, I think it most likely that 

 the Saleyer bird always dift'ers slightly from that from South Celebes. In that case 

 it would have to be considered, so to say, a form of C frenata dissentiens, just as 

 the latter is rather a form of C. frenata plateni than of C. frenata typica; but we 

 can only call the present form C frenata dissentiens, and, in case that fi-om Saleyer 

 should constantly differ, would have to call it, by a trinomial, a ^ubspiecies of 

 G. frenata, as otherwise we should get into a perfect labyrinth of names, which 

 would be impossible to use. 



5. Cinnyris teysmanni Biittik. {Notes Leyd. Mas. XV. j). 179, 1893). 



Common on the islands of Djampea and Kalao; specimens from the I wo islands 

 do not differ. I sent a mfde to my friend Dr. Biittikofer. who kindly compared it 

 with the type and found them to be identical. The pectoral tufts, however, are 

 more or less tinged with orange in nearly all the specimens before me, but this i.s 

 absent in a few, probably fading in time. The adult male is very e.xactly described 

 by the author {I.e.), but the female was not known. It is greyish olive above, washed 

 with green on the rump and the margins of the (prills. A whitish yellow sujierciliary 

 line over the eye. Beneath lemon-yellow, paler in younger birds, and always paler 

 on the throat and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts and inner lining of wing 

 whitish. Outer rectrices broadly ti|iped with white, these tips decreasing in extent 



