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to Flores it was not very wonderful for a bird to straggle occasionally across from 

 one island to the other. This talk with Mr. Everett was, alas, the last I had with 

 this great field-natnralist. 



P. maria must be frequent near Waingapo, for Everett and his men obtained 

 a good series there from September to December. The female does not differ from 

 the male. There is sometimes a narrow white spot on the shaft of the fourth, 

 or on the fifth, or on both these primaries. Wing 112 — IIG mm. 



39. Collocalia fuciphaga Thnnb. 

 <?, October, Waingapo. Wing 112 mm. 



40. Caprimulgus affinis Horsf. 



? ad. with an nnfledged chick, canght on December 19th. It is a rather dark 

 and rather greyish looking specimen, character.s probably due to the worn state of 

 plumage. 



41. Merops ornatus Lath. (III. p. 586). 

 Common at AVaingapo. 



42. Alcedo ispida floresiana (>Sharpe) (III. p. 586). 



Both sexes from Waingapo. The ?«?^e has the bill entirely black; the /(?»ta^e 

 the maxilla black, tlie mandible red. 



43. Ceyx innominata Salvad. 



These two specimens, both marked ?, have a bright dark blue spot behind the 

 ear-coverts 1 What does this mean ? I find it also in one skin from Sambawa and 

 one from the mountains of Java, both of which I believe to belong to C. innominata, 

 although the latter one has a remarkably short beak. On the other hand I cannot 

 find that bine spot in a fine series from Bali, Lombok, Flores, Sambawa, Bunguran, 

 and Sumatra. I have already (Vol. III. p. 571) shown that there are no differences 

 between C. innominata and C. euerijthra, but now, through the presence of this blue 

 spot in C. innominata, Sharpe's key on p. 173 of Cat. B. XVII. for the first group 

 gets unreliable. I cannot also see the blue spot in all the dillwynni, but find ir 

 sometimes absent. 



44. Halcyou chloris (Bodd.) (III. p. 586). 

 <? ? , Waingapo. 



45. Halcyon australasiae (Vieill.) (III. p. 586). 

 S ? , Waingapo. 



46. Eurystomus orientalis australis (Sw.) (III. p. 586). 

 Mr. Everett sent two specimens. 



47. Cacomantis threuodes <'ali. (111. p. 586). 



Waingapo. The specimens differ in the shade of the rufous underside, but 

 they are all threnodes. 



