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11. Tanyguathus affinis Wall. 



Two <?, one ? from Kaveli, Dnmas coll. 



We have not received Taiujgnothm gramineiis, vihXch. is cviilentlv a rare hiril. 

 T. alfinis is a representative of T. mpgalorhjnchus. 



12. Geofii'oyus rhodops (Gray). 



From Ka3-eli and Mount Mada, at about 3ui)(i ft. The young male has a green 

 crown, but it passes by moult into the lilac-bine crown through a brown-headed 

 stage, liiie its close allies Ge. j^ersonafus,_floresianm, sumbaihisis and probably all 

 the rest. 



13. Aprosmictus amboinensis buruensis Salvad. 

 It seems that this form is not distiugnishable from A. amboinensis amboinensis 

 except by the entirely black bill. The interscapular region is entirely blue in adult 

 males and apparently in females also, those with the interscapular region more or 

 less green being younger individuals. Doherty obtained this parrot near Kayeli ; 

 Dumas on Mount Mada, about 3000 ft. high. In November they moulted on the 

 coast. 



14. Prioniturus mada sp. nov. 



One immature niale, Mount IMada, 3000 ft., Damas coll. " Iris olive." 

 Green, feathers of nape with greyish blue edges, iuterscapulium mixed with 

 bluish grey, lower back greyish blue, feathers of rump bordered with gre3nsh blue. 

 Lesser upper wing-coverts and broad line on inner bend of wing to below the 

 scapulars of a somewhat ashy blue, a little darker than " campanula-blue " of 

 PI. ix. fig 11 in Ridgway's Nomencl. of Colour. Under-snrface of a much lighter 

 green, sides of chest darker and washed with blue ; under wing-coverts washed 

 with blue near the margin: longer under tail-coverts bright yellow, not yellowish 

 green. Wing 175, tail (the elongated central rectrices not measured, as they are 

 not fully developed) 97, bill from gape 22 mm., tarsus 15. 



It is a pity that we have no adult male, but the differences from the Celebes 

 species {P. platunts), which is the nearest ally, are so evident and striking, that 1 

 could not leave the Burn bird nndescribed. According to Schlcgel {Mus. F. B. III., 

 Psittaci, Revue, p. 22) the Leydeu Museum possesses a young female killed by 

 Hoedt on Nov. 8th, 1864, in the bay of Bara on the north-western coast of Burn. 

 The accuracy of this statement has been doubted (ef. Salmi/ori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 

 XX. p. 410), but we can now believe it. Most likely the yown^ female differs so 

 little from the same stage of P. platurus, that the differences were not noticed. 



15. Eudynamis orientalis (L.). 



The bird to which this name is generally applied is by no means rare in Burn, 

 though we only got it from Kayeli and not from Mt. Mada. 



The first plaiuage of the young of E. orieiitalis is rusty buff above and 

 below, and it is similar in the young of E. c'/anocepliala and allies, while it is black 

 in E. honorata mahujana and evidently in all its allies. The foster-parents of 

 E,. orientalis are unfortunately not known. (Uf. Nov. Zool. 1898, pp. 4G1, 472.) 



