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point to T. megalorhijHchus sumbensix. [See about this form A. B. Meyer iu 

 Vrrh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XXXI. p. 762 (1882), Salvadori in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 XX. II. 428 (18!tl), Hartcrt in Nov. ZooL. III. pp. 170, 588 (1806).] 



? ad. " Iris white, with narrow inner ring of very dark olive; bill deep red, the 

 tips of both mandibles corneous; feet dark olive-grey; claws blackish grey." An 

 adnlt fomnle has a pure yellow feather on the back. 



76. Cacatua parvula (Bil). 

 Malea &XiA J'emaleH from Endeh and Mangarai. 



CUCULIDAE. 

 77. Centropus javanicus (Dnmnnt). 

 Both sexes from Mangarai. 



78. Eudynamis honorata malayana (Cab. & Heine). 



There is a small series of a Etuli/namis from South Flores, which must, 1 

 believe, bear the above name. They are nndonbtedly E. honorata, but their 

 measurements are very large. The wings of two adnlt mal('.<< are 217 to 219 mm. 

 long, and those of the fr males measure the same. In typical Indian E. honorata 

 honorata the wings, and all other parts, are smaller, while big specimens occur 

 already in Southern Tenasserim and Malacca, the latter of which are in fact generally 

 even larger than those from the Greater Sunda Islands. Nevertheless I think the 

 Malayan forms from South Tenasserim to Flores can be united under the name 

 E. hon. malayana. Iris of male and female crimson-lake. The specimens from 

 Satonda (Nov. Zool. III. p. 57.5) belong to this same form. There is a female 

 from Satonda in moult which, among the fresh spotted plumage, shows a few old 

 abraded wholly black feathers, thus distinctly confirming the wonderful discovery 

 of Whitehead, that the -^owxi^ female in first plnmage is black like the adult male. 

 It is strange that Indian ornithologists have not discovered this fact long ago. 



79. Cuculus intermedins Vahl. 



There are a number of cuckoos from South Flores which are very troublesome. 

 Some have the bills as long as a European Cuculus canorus, and the wing of one 

 also fully reaches 8 inches (203 mm.), which is, according to Shelley's Cat. li. 

 Cuculidae, Brit. Mus., the minimum length of the wing of Euro})ean cuckoos — a 

 statement which is, I think, correct. In other specimens, however, the wing is 

 shorter and the bill shorter, but unfortunately those with the shorter bills do not all 

 have the shortest wings, and there are intermediate lengths of bills as well as of 

 wings. Although some of the specimens are certainly C. infennediu.^, agreeing with 

 skins from various other localities, partly named C. intermedius by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 partly by myself after careful former considerations, others, larger ones, may belong 

 to another form. There is very little to be done with these cnckoos, all being shot 

 in winter quarters, and one must really have them from their summer homes to 

 decide about their various races. 



*80. Cuculus poliocephalus Lath. 

 Half a dozen skins from the hills of Mangarai. 



