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3. Accipiter sulaensis (Schl.). 



One female in (prolniljly) first ])lumagL', Snla Mangoli. It is above rnsty 

 nifons, the feathers with brownish black centres and wliite bases. Crown nearly 

 black. Onter webs of primaries dark brown, with pale rufons edges. Inner webs 

 of primaries brown towards the tij), with indistinct darker cross-bars, pale rnsty 

 rnfous on their basal portion, with brownish black cross-bars. Tail above rnsty, 

 below very pale reddisii, with fonr broad brownish black cross-bars, outermost jiair 

 of rectrices with seven narrower cross-bars. Below buffy white, with longitudinal 

 dark brown blotches along the middle of the feathers. Under tail-coverts bnflfy 

 white, without spots. Tarsus ZO mm. ; middle toe without claw 34-.5 mm. " Iris 

 yellow ; feet olive-ochreous, with orange soles and black claws : bare skiu round 

 eyes and cere olive-ochreons." 



4. Pisorhina sulaensis sp. nov. 



This owl resembles in colour of pluniiiL;c certain dark rufous brown varieties 

 of P. menai/<'».'<is (Quoy et Gaim.), but it is (•0M^iderllbly larger, and the (arsns, 

 being bare on the back for its entire length, is also bare in front for about three- 

 eighths of its length. Above dark rufous brown, the feathers with a more or 

 less distinct black shaft-line and black mottlings, and with lighter rufous brown 

 spots. The black central lines broader on the crown. Four or five of the scapulars 

 with the greater part of the outer webs white ; this colour bordered inwardly with 

 brownish black. Inner webs of primaries dark sepia-brown, on the inner ones with 

 a marginal line of pale buff spots : outer webs sepia-brown, with jiale buff and 

 rufous i)atches. Below like most scops-owls, and not differing from many 1'. 

 menadensis, but with as mnch white as the darker specimens of P. alhit-entris. 

 One S from Snla Mangoli, October 1897. "Iris orange; feet dirty yellowish 

 white, with blackish claws ; bill blackish, lower mandible and cere dirty ochreous." 

 Total lengtli abont 22-5 mm., a. 170, c. 77, t. .30 mm. There is also a nestling of 

 this interesting new owl from Snla Besi, the downy feathers of which are pale butfy 

 brown, with nnmerons dark brown cross-bars. " Its iris was deep brown, its feet 

 dull whitish testaceous, its bill j)ale dnll lead-colonr." The tarsus is bare for half 

 its length. 



ft. Loriculus sclateri Wall. 



A good series from Snla Besi and one from Snla J\Iangoli. " Feet orange, 

 claws black; bill black, basally orange." 



The series before me confirms in the main the differences stated to exist 

 between this (typical) form of /,. sdafi'ri and L. i<clateri rnher M. & Wg. of Peling 

 and Banggai, although the most reddish sjjecimens cannot be distinguished from the 

 least reddish ones of L. s. ruber. 



0. Aprosmictus dorsalis sulaensis (Hehw.;. 



It is probably right to separate the Snla bird from .1. dorsalis dorsalis, but in 

 no case will it be a good species. 1 have before me, in the Tring Museum, ten skins 

 from Dutch N(!w Guinea, Batanta, Salwatti, Mori, and Mr. Doherty has now sent us 

 nine from Snla Mangoli, shot there in October and November. Out of these three are 

 marked '• ?." Two of these have the interscapular region entirely green, one being 



