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Ks. CoUocalia fuciphaga (Tluiuli.). 



Two skins and a miiubpr of nests from Savn. The nests are " edible nests," 

 bnilt of saliva. 8ome are very clear, of " good (juality " for the market ; others 

 have a bluish or purplish colour ; and many are interwoven with feathers and bits 

 of grass, forming what is called " second quality." These birds breed in Savn in 

 caves, togetlier with the following species of CoUocalia; but they place their nests 

 in different parts of the caves. In August they contained no eggs or young. 



V.K CoUocalia neglecta G. E. Gray (or subsp. ?). 



A number of skins of C. najLccta from Savn are above darker and of a deeper 

 colour than the types from Timor in the British Museum, which I described 

 (^'7^ B. XVI. pp. 510, 511) as having the npj)er wing-coverts, back, and ruinj) 

 " dark jilumbeous grey." That may be said of those collected by "Wallace, wiiich, 

 however, are now forty years old, and which are probably faded to a certain degree ; 

 but it cannot be said of our fresh Savu skins. In these the U{)per parts are blackish 

 brown, with a slight greenish gloss ; but the narrow whitish edges to most of the 

 feathers give it a sort of hoary, pale ajipearance. The freshly moulted rectrices are 

 of a brownish black, with a steel-blue gloss. The rather elongated longest under 

 tail-coverts are glossy greenish black, with white edges. These latter can also well 

 be traced in one of the type-specimens, while in some of the others these feathers 

 are absent. As it is, my Savu skins must stand as C. neijlecla, although a fresh 

 series from Timor might possibly show some constant though slight differences, and 

 thus necessitate a subspeciiic separation. 



The nests of this CoUocalia are buUt of grass and fibre, with a few feathers and 

 fragments of dry leaves, just held together by a small amount of saliva. Tliey are 

 found in the same caves as those of C.facipkax/a, but are j)laced in different parts 

 of the caves. They contained (August 27th, 1896) no eggs. 



20. Caprimulgus affinis Horsf. 



A large series from Savu. The males are represented in different ages, 

 althongh they were all shot in the month of August. Young males resemble the 

 oid females. The youngest mxde is above much greyer than old ones, somewhat 

 like C. griseatus from Luzon. The white spots on the primaries are strongly shaded 

 with buff, those on the third and fourth rusty buff throughout. The rectrices have 

 vo ichite, but are barred throughout, as in the adult /maYe. The breast is somewhat 

 pale and greyish, the spots on the throat buft' instead of white. There are different 

 stages between this and the old male with the outer rectrices chiefly white, as 

 described in Cat. B. XVI. p. 550. 



21. Merops ornatus Luth. 

 Evidently very common. ?. " Irides lake-red ; bUl black ; feet dusky black." 



22. Halcyon sanctus (Vig. & Horsf). 



A large series. The colour of tiie upi)erside varies much, but it seems that the 

 female has the back browner, the wings more greenish, while the male has the back 



