f 1«1 ) 



68. Nycticorax caledonicus ((im.). 



?. Djarappii, December 1895. "Iris golden; ophthalmic and loral regions, 

 base of ma.xilla, with a line on the .sides, and the mandible light grass-green; rest 

 of maxilla and small stripe near apex of mandible black ; legs light yellowish f,reeu ; 

 claws brownish grey." 



69. Butorides javanicus (Horsf.). 



c?. Novenilier 2lind, Saleyer. 



70. Bubulcus coromaudus dVMld). 

 d . Novenilier 1895, &leyer. 



71. Nettion gibberifrons CMiill-.). 



One pair, a irude and afeiiuile, from l^aleyer. Again \]ie female has a distinctly 

 shorter bill, though there is no difference in the feet, and the wing is only a tride 

 .shorter. (See aide}, p. 165.) 



72. Microcarbo melanoleucus (\'i(ill.). 

 ?. December 1895, Djampea. 



73. Megapodius duperreyi Less. & Gam. 



Djampea and Kalao. i. "Iris cinnamon-hrown ; bill dull Indian yellow; 

 skin of ophthalmic and loral regions and of throat dull crimson ; legs vermilion- 

 red ; upper surface of toes blackish brown ; claws black." 



A mound with a large number of eggs was found on Kalao on December 21st. 

 The eggs measure from 82 to 88 mm. by 50 to 52 mm. The species is known from 

 Bonerate and Saleyer. (Meyer & Wiglesw., Ahh. and Ber. Mus. Dresden, 1896, 

 No. 1, p. 16.) 



0. Grant was evidently justified in uniting (he different forms that have been 

 separated of this bird, but if it should be found possible to separate some sub- 

 specific forms, then it would seem that the birds under consideration would lieloug 

 to M. (joukli Gray. 



Valuable as the present collections undoubtedly are, they are probably not 

 exhaustive for any of the islands ; therefore any conclusions we may ilraw from 

 them must be subject to alterations, or even be erroneous for a great part, when we 

 come to know everything from all these i.slands. Even among the few birds collected 

 on Saleyer by j'Max Weber there was a land-bird, Pachycejjhnla orphea, which was 

 not obtained by Everett. The differences between Kalao and Djampea would be 

 great if we could with any certainty judge from the absence of a species in the 

 collection from one island that it did only occur on the other. This, however, would 

 be hazardous; but from the difference between the two new species of Siphia on the 

 two islands, and from the absence of some of the most numerotis species from 

 l)jam])ea among the Kalao skins, and vice versa, we must conclude that the ornis 

 of Djam])ea and Kalao is not entirely tlie same, though, of com'se, much alike in 

 its general character. ]''rom the present material it would seem that both Djampea 

 and Kalao have as much, or rather more, in common witli the Lesser Sunda Islands 

 and Timor than with Olebes. Resides n few forms probably peculiar to them 



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