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•il. Chalcococcyx malayauus (RafH.). 

 A single skiu from Ata}>ui)n.* 



52. Psitteuteles euteles (Temm.). 



Half-a-dozeu skins, Atapnpn, Aui;nst. " Iris orange ; bill orange-rod, witli 

 }'ellow ti]) ; orbital skin black ; feet dark olivaceous grey, claws dark brownisli 

 horn-grey." 



TJie tyi)ical form is the Timor one. In the adult male the ear-coverts are much 

 brighter and more golden yellow, a character not mentioned in most descriptions. 

 As I have said before this, the specimens from Flores are like those from Timor. 



53. Neopsittacus rubripileum Salvad. 



A large series, Atapnpn, and one female from Filaran in W. Timor, shot in 

 July and August. ? . " Iris dark orange ; cere and orbits livid black ; bill orange- 

 rod : mandible dark yellow ; feet olive-grey, claws dusky blackish." 



Although it seems pecnliar that two such closely allied species should occur on 

 the same island, yet N. iris (Temm.) seems to be quite distinct. Our specimens of 

 N. rubripileum either have the pilenm quite red, or mixed with light green or pale 

 greenish blue, some of the feathers having green or bluish edges. The young bird 

 has the pileum yellowish green, the feathers tipped with red, these tips increasing 

 in width, so that the forehead is quite orange-red. 



Scops, iris was not met with by Mr. Everett. 



54. Geofiroyus personatus (Shaw). 



S ad. " Iris lemon-yellow : orbital skin and cere olive-brown : bill orange-red. 

 the distal third yellow, and the tip horn-brown, mandible brown : feet olivaceous 

 grey, claws dark grey." ?. "Iris pale lemon-yelldw ; bill brown; feet olivaceous 

 grey, claws dark grey." 



5."i. Trichoglossus haematodus (L.). 



A magnificent series of seventeen specimens, shot in July at Ata]iuim. " The 

 correct colour of the iris in this bird when alive is in both sexes a vivid blood-red, 

 with a very narrow inner ring of yellow, but the iris seems generally to turn to 

 orange after death." Some, I think younger, specimens — both males sind/emales — 

 have very little red on the breast, which is yellow with only some faint concealed 

 orange-red spots, while the under wing-coverts are bright red in every one of the 

 series, but mostly with some orange-yellow edges to some or all. In the series of 

 sixteen now before me from Sumba, there are five or six with hardly any red on the 

 breast, and eight with bright yellow under wing-coverts, only here and there with 

 a small red jiatcli. I further find that most specimens from Timor have a brighter 



* No other Cuciilulac were procured on Timor, but before he went tiiere Mr. Everett shot a specimen of 



Surniculus musschenbroeki A. B. Meyer 



jnst outside the town of Makassar, Soutlt Celebes. It will be remembered that this species wa.s until quite 

 recently only known by the type-spccimen in Dresden, but that Mr. Everett collected two specimens on 

 ponthain Peak in Celebes. The type had been said to come from I^afjan. 



