( ly ) 



23. Eos recticulata (S. Miill.). 



Two adult ««/fA-, Bebbor, Dammcr, 3(». 12. 189S. " Iris with an outer bnrnt- 

 sienna ring, followed by a sepia-coloured and an inner narrow yellowish grey ring. 

 Feet black. Bill blood-red." 



This species is only known from Timorlaut or Tenimber, but Mr. Kiibu has 

 also sent us one shot on Little Key Island. 



24. Psitteuteles euteles (Temm.) (? subsp.). 



We have a good series of this bird from Dammer. Only one of them 

 approaches typical euteles from Timor, while most of them have the head much 

 more greenish, the abdomen shaded with green. As, however, immature eutele-n 

 from Timor are similar, I must leave it to future research whether such yellow- 

 headed individuals as on Timor are ever found on Dammer. If the characters stated 

 above — which are those of immature birds on Timor — serve to distingnish the 

 Dammer form subspeciKcally, then the Wetter-bird (judging from one example 

 received in exchange from the Lej'den Museum) might belong to it, and those from 

 Alor and Pantar would seem to be intermediate. '-The iris in the Dammer birds 

 is orange, feet olive-grey, bill yellowish vermilion." 



I have no doubt that Triclioglossus (dorensi.i, described as a new species from 

 Alor by Finscli (yotes Lojdeii Museum, XX., p. 220), is the young of euteles. The 

 differences given are the characteristics of the immature birds. The only peculiarity 

 of them is the dark brown bill. As our immature individuals have a brown tip to 

 the bill, I must believe that the very young birds have totally brown bills. It is 

 most unlikely that two so closely allied species of Psitteuteles inhabit the small 

 island of Alor. 



25. Halcyon australasiae dammeriana subsp. nov. 



Tlie specimens from Dammer, from where I have nine skins before me, differ 

 from those from Timor, Lombok and Sumba, collected by Everett and Doherty, in 

 having the crown of the head dark cinnamon with a dusky green i)atch in the 

 middle, and some dusky green stripes on the forehead, wjiile the entiri' crown is 

 green in //. a. australasiae, only striped with cinnamon on the forehead. One of 

 the specimens from Dammer closely approaches the typical form, bnt there is still 

 more cinnamon on the anterior part of the crown. The specimens with the greatest 

 iimouut of cinnamon are females. In typical australasiae I find no difference in the 

 sexes with regard to the extent of cinnamon on the crown. The young bird has 

 cinnamon edges to thr upper wing-coverts, blackish ones to the feathers of the 

 underside. 



The iris of 7/. a. t/ammeriana is dark brown ; bill black, lower bill whitish with 

 <lusky tip ; feet pale brownish black. 



Another subsjiefies of //. australasiae, the minor of A. B. Meyer, inhabits 

 Timorlaut. 



20. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.) (? subsp.). 



In the series from Dammer all the males are remarkably blue, the females 

 more greenish. The ear-coverts are black with a bluish wash. I do not believe that 

 they can ultimately be classed with typical chloris, but at present the time and 



