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(listingnish it nominally as a local aberration (ab. loc. taprobana), as is cnstomary 

 among entomologists. 



Sharpe, I.e., gives also the " Moluccas " as a locality for this species, bnt this is 

 probably a jienslip. 



*Tn. Halcyon sanctus Vig. & Horsf. 

 Three skins. I cannot fiml the species recorded from Flores. 



71. Monachalcyon fulgidus (<iould) (? subsp.). 



A series of M. fulgidm from Sonth Flores differs slightly from most of the 

 specimens received from Lombok and Sambawa, and especially from the former 

 island. The bine of most (but not all) is brighter, on the tips of some of the 

 feathers of the back are bright light bine spots, the blue of the back reaches farther 

 np towards the crown, and there are on the crown some white hairs between the 

 feathers. As some of these characters, however, vary a good deal, and the skins 

 before me are of rather different make, I liesitate to give a name to the Flores form, 

 the type being from Lombok. 



The very yonng bird of this species has the crown deep bine, bnt the forehead 

 aud the back dull black, in opposition to the coloration of the adult bird. 



72. Pelargopsis gurial floresiana (Sharpe). 



A fine series of this interesting form from South Flores. Specimens from 

 Lombok cannot be separated from typical floresiana. Vordermann's .visah is only 

 an immature specimen, as the characters given by liim are found in immature birds 

 before me. 



PSITTAGI. 



73. Psitteuteles weberi Biittik. 



Of this excellent species, hitherto only rejiresented by the specimens in the 

 Leydeu Museum, Mr. Everett has sent a fine series from Endeh and from Mangarai, 

 from the lowland up to 4000 feet above the sea. The specimens agree perfectly 

 with Biittikofer's description and figure on p. 200 and PI. XVIL in Max Weber's 

 Zoolotj. Knjfhidsse e. Beise in Siederl. 0. Ind. III. The much larger bill, the 

 green head with bluish forehead in the old bird, the yellowish collar ou the hindueck, 

 and the wide yellowish band across the chest distinguish P. wehcri at a glance 

 from P. eutcles. There is, nevertheless, a mystery about these forms. Among 

 the many specimens of P. cuteles brought home by Wallace are a number which are 

 labelled " Flores." As recent explorers have only found P. weberi ou Flores, one 

 might suggest that either Wallace's so-called P. euteles from Flores are all 

 P. weberi, or that the locality Flores is not right. Buttikofer {I.e.) took the former 

 view, and thus placed Trirho(ilossu.<s euteles Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484 (partim— 

 ex Flores), as a synonym of P. weberi, adding (p. 291) that Salvadori in Cat. B. 

 Brit. M'is. XX. p. 64, had already called attention to the darker green head and 

 darker green under parts of the Flores skins, collected in Flores for Wallace by 

 Mr. Allen, but had failed to recognise their specific distinction. Salvadori, however, 

 did not make such mistake, for the skins in the British Museiuu are all /'. euteles, 



