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he fails to see tlie characters for separating Sf. salcadorii from Tirunrlant from 

 St. squamata, but St. snlvadoiii is apparently a distinct form, being very much 

 smaller, the wings abont 1 cm. shorter. We have fonr Timorlaut birds for 

 comparison. 



The female of St. squamata is a little smaller than the male; the young bird 

 has the area behind and below the eye, which in the adult birds is covered with 

 short scaly deep black feathers with silvery white tips, quite bare and of a light 

 flesh-colour, and the breast is pale greenish grey without scales. Sharps {I.e. p. 57) 

 questions the correctness of the occurrence of St. ckloris on Dammer, mentioned by 

 Salvadori (Ora. Pap. II. p. 32G), but it is Dammer in the Moluccas, not our 

 Dammer, where Bernstein collected this and other birds. 



The nest of St. squamata is a neat structure, ornamented on the outside with 

 white little cobwebs and wool and cotton, with a "tail" hanging down from the 

 bottom, and an entrance hole on the side, which is sometimes overhung by 

 a protecting leaf and with a little porch-like roof. The eggs (two in number) are 

 white, finely speckled and punctated with a light-brownish red or bright brick-red. 

 They measure : 17-5 : 13-2, 17-7 : 14, 18-5 : 12-9, and 18-6 : 12-5 mm. 



16. Pachycephala melauura dammeriana subsp. nov. 

 I have no doubt, that P. nirlnmirii, clio, burueiisis, iiiacrorhj/ncha, obiennix, 

 everetti and several others will be treated as subspecies of one form, and I therefore 

 do not hesitate to call the new form also merely a subspecies of inelanura. In the 

 distribution of colours it agrees with the other forms. Chin and throat pure white, 

 surrounded by a 5 to 10 mm. wide black collar. The yellow collar above well 

 defined. The wing-coverts are olive-green with small black bases. Primary-coverts 

 and bastard-wing black with olive-grey borders. Onter webs of remiges edged with 

 greenish olive-grey. Bectrices black, outwardly edged with yellowish olive-green, 

 broader towards base, very narrow near tip. All the rectrices tipjjed with olive for 

 about 4 mm. The back is olive-green, less yellowish than in P. m. clio, breast and 

 abdomen yellow, less bright and golden than in clio. This latter form is perhaps 

 the most similar one to dammeriana, differing, however, in the much more extended 

 black bases to the upper wing-coverts, uniform black primary-coverts, more golden 

 upperside, deeper yellow underside, and an almost pure black tail with almost 

 imperceptibly narrow olive tips. The female of P. m. dammeriana, of which, 

 however, only one is received, seems not to differ from that of clio. The size is 

 about that of clio. 



17. Pachycephala arctitorquis Scl. 

 A series from Dammer agrees with Timorlaut specimens in the British and 

 Tring Museums. 



18. Calornis circumscripta A. B. Meyer. 



Caloniis gidaris (errore, non Gray), Cut. B. Brit. Mux. XIII. p. 141 ; C. circumscripta. A. B. Meyer 

 in Sitzungsher. u. Ahh. Ges. Jsis 1884, 1 p. 49 (Timorlaut) ; C. cirmmscrijHa, Salvadori, Agy. II. 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 141. 



A series from Dammer (Woeloer) agrees so well with typical circumscripta 

 from Timorlaut, that I cannot separate them. In some, but not in all, the bill is 

 less high. The iris of C. circumscripta is vermilion, feet and bill black. 



The name of gularis cannot be used for this species, because the bird from 

 Morty is not distinguishable from C. metallica. 



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