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average in the same direction. The question of their snbspecifio valne is therefore 

 still open to doubt, but I believe at jiresent in a smaller northern race. 



The Muity form is very likely inseparable from the small northern one, but it 

 is remarkable that the few specimens (we have also one in Tring) known from 

 there are all very reddish browu. This is probably merely the rufons phase ; in 

 any case wo cannot assnme, without further evidence, that all Morty si)ecimens 

 are similarly rufous. 



I am not prepared to accept the localities Am and Sumbawa for Scops mnqicKS 

 without hesitation. From Snmbawa I have before me typical Scops manar/i'iisis 

 albiventris, and not magicus ; and it is diflScnlt to believe that Am has typical 

 magicus. 



6. Strix cayelii, sp. nov. 



Oney(>»2rt/e of a most beautiful Strix from Kayeli, October 1898, closely re- 

 sembles the golden-yellowish form of Strix nocaehoUandiae, of which it is probably 

 a subspecies, but has a more blackish ground-colour above, and the beautiful white 

 mottlings are replaced by brownish ones, except on the middle and greater wing- 

 coverts. The dimensions are smaller, but the longest remiges in both wings not 

 being fully grown, exact measurements cannot be given. Tail 120 mm. 



Although I have only one specimen of this owl, and the differences are slight, I 

 cannot suppose that it is the same as Strix noraehollandiae. I believe, however, 

 that many more forms of Strix will yet be found in the Eastern Archipelago. 



7. Eos bornea cyanonotus (Vieill.). 



Eos rubra var., Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 21. 

 Eos rubra (partim) anctornm. 



The Burn examples of the red lory differ so conspicuonsly from the tyi)ical 

 form of Amboina and Ceram, that most ornithologists would separate them 

 specifically. I prefer to treat them as a representative subspecies. Examples from 

 Amboina, etc. are larger, and the body-plumage is uniform above and below and of 

 a much lighter and brighter scarlet>-red, lighter on the head. Those from Burn are 

 very much smaller and the red is darker and more crimson. At present I am not 

 able to make any further subdivisions, but it seems that examples from the Key 

 Islands are generally larger; in other resi)ects, however, they are perfectly similar to 

 those from the Islands of Amboina and Ceram. Probably those from Bum 

 (cgano)wtus) have lighter and more yellow bills, but unfortunately neither Dohcrty 

 nor Dumas took the trouble to mention the colour of tiie beak on the labels, while 

 we have fourteen from other localities with the colour of the bill described on the 

 labels. 



I have chosen the name cyanonotus (Vieillot in Nonv. Diet. xxv. p. 334) which is 

 based on Levaillant's figure of the " Lori a frauges blenes " on jilanche 93 of his 

 " Perroquets." This figure is of the small size and the dark, almost crimson, red of 

 the Burn birds, very much in contradiction to his light red " Pcrrnche scarlate," 

 which we take to be the typical form. These are the wing-measurements of the 

 series now in the llothschild Museum ; — 



