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ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. EVERETT IN 

 SOUTH FLORES. 



Part 11.' 



By ERKST HAKTERT. 

 (Plate I.) 



PASSERES. 



*05. Chlorura intermedia Hartert. 



A malt', which is perfectly similar to specimeus from Lombok, where this form 

 was discovered by Doherty aud Everett, from Maiigarai. (Cf. Nov. Zool. III. 

 pp. 5.58, 559, 594.) The bird should have been enumerated after No. 30, but was 

 omitted. 



CAPRIMULGIDAE. 

 *fiO. Caprimulgns affinis Horsf. 



From the low country up to about oonO feet. 



On November 15th njemale was found with two just-fledged young ones. 



MEROPIDAE. 



07. Merops philippinus L. 

 Onejhmale. 



ALCEDINIDAE. 



(58. Ceyx innominata Salvad. 



A fine series from the lower country. The specimens dn not difier from those 

 sent from Lombok, Samba wa, etc. 



As I have said before (Nov. Zool. III. p. .■)T]), I cannot find any differences 

 whatever between C. enerythra and C. innominata, which varies in tlie colour of the 

 upper parts according to age. 



09. Alcedo ispida floresiana (Sharjje). 



Two males. This very interesting form, first suj)plied with a name by Sharpe 

 in Cat. B. XVII. p. 151, is hardly different in colour from the bright blue form 

 found in (ley Ion and named .1. taprobana by Kleinsehmidt, but the beaks are much 

 thicker and less pointed at the tip. In my ojiinion all these forms can only be 

 treated as subs])ecies, and shimld be called .1. i.ytitla hengalensis, A. i. Jloresianu, 

 A. i. ixjndioideii ; but it is difficult to say what to do with A. taprobana, which is 

 found in Ceylon as well as A. i. bengalensis, but not in other countries inhabited by 

 A. i. hengalensi.-i, or at least not in all. It seems to me quite reasonable to 



♦ For Part I. see Nov. Zool. IV. pp. .•>i;i..")28 and Plate III. 



