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I'l. Erythrura tricolor forbesi Sharpe. 



I Lave compared a series from Uamraer with the single type of K. foiliesi in 

 the British Mnsenm, and did not notice an\- ditiVreucos. The comparison of a series 

 would, of course, he desirable. /-'. tricolor of Timor is, of course, closely allied, 

 differing merely in the blue colour of the crown being spread over the mantle. 



" Iris dark brown, feet pale flesh-colour, bill black.'" 



The eggs are white, rather pointed on the narrow end, and measnro ITo : l:i, 

 17-0 : 13:2 and 17-8 : 13 mm. 



20. Pitta vigorsi (iuuld. 



A series from Dammer agrees iu every respect with a series from Buuda. 

 '• The iris is brown, feet flesh-colour, bill black." 



This beautiful Pitta inhabits Banda, Dammer and Timorlaut, whili' on Flores 

 it is represented by the black-throated conciiuid (ionld, with a bi-culoured super- 

 ciliary stripe, on Alor and Lomblen by the j)erfectly similar eceretti Hart., with a 

 longer beak, on Timor by irena Temm., with a uniform superciliary stripe, on Sula 

 Mangoli by the perfectly similar crassirostrix Wall., with a larger bill, on Djampea 

 by virijinalis Hart., with a much broader stripe, on .Suraba by murin Hart., without 

 black on the abdomen and with a narrow imiform supcreiliary line, iti North 

 Queensland by the larger simillima Gould, with nearly the whole crown brown, in 

 other parts of Australia by the still larger strepitans Temm. There can be no 

 doubt that all these forms, representing each other on the various islands and 

 agreeing in the pattern and general colouration as well as in structure, are all 

 best treated as subspecies of one species, only the last two are more specialized 

 and might be kept specifically distinct from the rest. Also Pitta hertue Salvad., 

 which represents this type iu Borneo, is allied to this group, while moluccensis 

 P. L. 8. Mull, stands much more apart, and occurs together with P. hertac on 

 Borneo and on other islands of the Archipelago. 



'i\. Collocalia neglecta Gray. 



Five specimens from Woeloer. " Iris of the darkest brown, feet and bill 

 black." 



This swiftlet differs from (.'. esculenta only in being smaller, duller and less 

 glossy above, and by some of the feathers of the mmj) and some of the npj)er tail- 

 coverts having narrow whitish edges. The expression used in the Catalogue of 

 Birds (v. Ifi, p. .310), "back, rump, and wing-coverts dark j)lumbeons grey," is far 

 too strong, but I had then only four old skins, which were indeed very jiale, and 

 might very well be called "dark plumbeous." 



22. Eurystomus orientalis australis Swain.s. 



Not rare on Dammer. 



Young individuals have a brownish black bill and no blue ou the throat. 



