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4it. Pachycephala melanura buruensis Hart. 



The male differs from PachjiccplKiln melanura clio from the Sula Islands, with 

 which it has hitherto erroneously been considered " identical" in being of a mnch 

 deeper dark greenish olive colour on the upperside, and in having at the nppcr wing- 

 coverts pure black with narrow olive edges. The golden-^yellow collar on the back 

 of the neck is unbroken, the pectoral pure black collar is very wide and broadly 

 united with the black sides of the head. The remiges are edged with the colour of 

 the back. Tail black. The female differs from that of cUo in the colour of the 

 underside, which'is pale huffish brown below, lighter in the middle of the abdomen, 

 darker and browner on the chest, and becoming more greyish on the throat. Under 

 tail-coverts bnffy yellow. The young male is more rufous below and darker on the 

 back than the female, which is olive-brown above. ? ad. wing 93, tail 73, culmen 

 18 to 19 mm. ' (Cf. Bull. B. 0. Club, VIII. p. 33). 



Kayeli, Bara, Mt. Mada. 



41. Cinnyris zenobia (Less.). 

 Frequent at Kayeli and Bara. 



42. Cinnyris proserpina (A\'all.). 



Mount Mada and Ka_veli. In the Catalogue of Birds this very distinct form is 

 mixed up with C /ui/ri.scapularis into C. asjxcsia, but all these forms are distinct, 

 though representative forms. 



43. Dicaeum erythrothorax Less. 



This beautiful little bird was obtained at Kayeli and on Mount Mada. A nest 

 from Kayeli is protected by some large overhanging leaves and beautifully woven of 

 soft rufous fibres, the entrance-hole being very near the top. 



44. Philemon moluccensis (Gm.). 



This bird, which so closely resembles the Oriolus bouruensis, that their 

 synonymy has been mixed up, although they belong to widely-different families, is 

 evidently common on the island. The young is like the adult bird, but the feathers 

 on the sides of the lower throat are widely edged with pale sulphur-yellow, and the 

 quills have greenish outer edges. The fresh feathers, after the moult, are more 

 olive, but they become somewhat foxy brown when worn and faded. 



45. Zosterops buruensis tSalvad. 

 This bird is extremely rare in collections, but Dumas got four specimens on 

 Mount Mada. Three are marked " ?," one c?, but it is evident that two are males, 

 two /m«fes, and two are remarkably smaller than the other two. These birds do 

 by no means have their nearest in the Celebensian Z. intermedia, which differs 

 widely in its more uniform under-surface, lighter and more yellowish upperside and 

 other characters, nor in Z. Moris from Banda, which is also lighter and more 

 yellowish above and has the flanks and sides of breast much paler, but in a bird 

 inhabiting Batjan and Ternate. This latter bird agrees with Z. bi/ruensis in the 

 dark upperside and dark sides, but it differs slightly in being a little smaller, less 

 golden olive and more green above, and in having the sides of the body also more 

 greenish and even still darker I I name it 



