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Hab. Insula Saleyer dicta. 



Typus in Mnseo Rothschildiano asservatnr. 



11. Cinnyris porphi/rolacma (Wall.). — Low country only. 



12. Mxjzomelu chlorojdera Walden. — 400(1 to 60OO feet. 



13. Melilestes cekbensis meridioiiaUs Mey. & Wigl. -<?, 0000 feet. " Bill black; 



feet dark biown ; soles dull oclireons." 



14. Zosterops anomalu Mey. & Wigl. — This interesting sjiecies, wjiich truly deserves 



the name anomala, was found at 3000 and 4000 feet. The "iris is pale 

 brown; the feet pale bluish grey; l)eak liiack; base of mandible pale." 

 l^. Z. sarasinoi-um Mey. &Wigl. — Two mali's from 50(J0 feet. As remarked before, 

 in my article on the birds collected on Bonthaiu Peak by Mr. Everett, I 

 have not seen Z. snrasirwrum from North Celebes, liut Dr. A. B. Meyer has 

 been good enough to compare some of my Bonthain Peak skius with his 

 Z. sarasinorum, and declares them to be the same. The authors, when 

 describing this species, did not compare it with its nearest ally at all, nor 

 did I when I first mentioned it, as I had no specimens of Z. citrineUa. Now, 

 comparing Z. sarasinoram with Z. citrinelhi, I find that they are very 

 similar to each other, in fact so much that they might be merely subspecies. 

 Z. citrineUa, however, is a little larger, with longer wing and beak, and 

 has the sides of the breast and abdomen more strongly washed with greyish 

 brown, and the middle of the breast and abdomen is lighter and more 

 washed with ])ale yellow in Z. sa7-a)<inonim. Z. palpebrosa and allies 

 differ at a glance in the grey sides of breast and abdomen. 



16. Z. intermedia Wall. — In the lower parts and at about 3000 feet. " Iris pale sepia; 



feet pale bluish grey ; maxilla deep brown ; mandible pale corneous." 

 Specimens from the Lesser Sunda Islands, as said before in this journal, 

 are mostly distinctly larger, with slightly larger beaks, and it might be 

 possible to separate them subspecifically from Z. intermedia of Celebes. 



17. Z. squamiceps (Hartert). — I greatly doubt now, the more I see of Chlorocharis 



emiliae and my Chi. sqimmiceps, that either of them can with satisfaction 

 be separated from the genus Zosterops, as long as Oreozosterops and other 

 aberrant forms are united with it, which I do not wish to separate (see Nov. 

 ZooL. III. jjp. 70, 153). Also my Lopkozosterops dohertyi (Nov. ZooL. 

 III. p. 668) is most closely allied to these large aberrant forms of 

 Zosterops, but tlie elongated head-feathers, forming a consjiiouous crown in 

 both sexes, may warrant its generic sejiaration. The beak of Lopkozosterops, 

 too, is rather strong and stout ibr a Zostei-ops. Z. squamiceps (Hart.) was 

 found to be common in heights of about 500i » and 6000 feet above the sea. 

 " The iris is dark chestnut or dark brown ; feet dark bluish grey, soles 

 ochreous; beak black." 



18. Munia moliicca (L.). — Met with in the low country only. Celebes examjiles are 



not, I think, separable from M. molucca typica, while some of the Saleyer 

 and Kalao specimens approach the M. molucca propinqva of the Lesser 

 Sunda Islands. This latter subspecies is indeed very little differentiated, 

 but I i|uite agree with Mr. Bharjie tliat it deserves a name. Systematic 

 work is scientijic only if it is exact; if not it is either useless, or doing harm 

 instead of good. 



19. Artamus vionackus Bj). — One c?, shot at 6000 feet above the sea. Quite like 



specimens from North Celebes. " Iris deeji red-brown ; feet and claws 



