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A study of the material of the genus E'ldijnamis has now shown me that I was 

 wrong in identifying the birds from Alor and Sumba (Nov. Zool. 1898, pp. 461 , 472) 

 with E. o'ientalis. These birds are a form of E. ajanocephala, and are united with 

 the latter in the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIX. p. 324. This, however, is not quite exact, 

 as they are so mnch smaller that they cannot be united with the large Australian 

 race. As far as I can make out the smaller race has no name. The smaller race 

 has the wing of the mab's 200 to 210 mm., the larger has it 220 to 222 mm. long, 

 and there are similar differences of dimensions of the tail, bill and feet, and also in 

 VnQ females. The large race inhabits Australia, the typical small race, which I call 



Eudynamis cyanocephala everetti snbsp. nov. 



in memory of our late friend Alfred Everett, who obtained it in Alor and Sumba 

 (type Sumba !) inhabits Alor, Sumba, Timor, the Key Islands and small islands to 

 the north of it, and evidently parts of New Guinea and other islands, though the 

 New Guinea specimens require a most careful study. 



Owing to the resemblance of the adult males of Eudynamis, which are all black, 

 and the different stages through which the young birds jiass, as well as to the want of 

 well-dated, well-sexed individuals, and last not least to all biological observations, 

 which would here be of particular value, the genus Eacli/nainis is not easily under- 

 stood, and even the two most important works on the same, namely Salvadoii's 

 excellent memoir in the immortal Oniitologia Papuasia, I. pp. 3.59 to 370 and 

 Shelley's article in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIX. pp. 315 to 328 are not sufficient and 

 not quite satisfactory. 



An examination of the material at jsresent available in the Tring Museum leads 

 me to the following results, which, however, may require considerable additions, and 

 even alterations, when a richer material is worked out at leisure. 



Eudynamis honorata honorata (L.). 

 S ad. wing about 187 to 107 mm. ; crown of ? ad. with buff shaft-stripes ; 

 first plumage of young blackish. India to China. 



Eudynamis honorata malayana (Cab.). 

 c? ad. wing about 198 to 220 mm. ; crown of ? ad. with buff shaft-stripes ; first 

 plumage of young black. Malay Archipelago. 



Eudynamis honorata mindanensis (L.). 



S ad. wing about 192 to 200 mm. ; crown of ? ad. rufous with blackish stripes ; 

 first plumage of j'oung blackish. Philippines to Sanghir. 



Blasius has {Braunschweig. Anz. of January 11, 18S8, &n(\. Russ' Isis, p. 78) 

 separated the Sanghir form as sanghirensis * because he thought it had a differently 

 shaped bill, but I am sorry to say I cannot see this difference, after having 

 compared a series, and I do not therefore admit the form sanghirensis. Meyer and 

 Wiglesworth (i?. Celebes I. p. 211) admitted it but had no material for comparison. 



Eudynamis orientalis orientalis (L.). 

 c? ad. wing about 213 to 22U mm. ; ? ad. with cinnamon spots above; first 

 plumage of young buff. Moluccan islands only. 



* Tbis is not quoted in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIX. 



