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flauks olive-yellowish brown, some feathers on the side of the breast olive vrith 

 black tii)s, as well as some of the white breast feathers, thus forming a broken 

 irregular band across the breast. Under tail-coverts creamy white. Under wing- 

 coverts mixed black and white. Iris dark brown : bill black ; feet light. Culmeu 

 23, wing 94, tail GS, tarsns 32 mm. 



Ihb. Monnt Mada, Burn (3000 feet), August 1898. 



54. Calornis obscurus (Bp.). 

 Kayeli, common. 



•>-y Munia molucca (L.). 

 Typical molucca from Bara and Kayeli. 



60. Macropygia amboinensis (L.). 

 Common on Burn, where it was fonud at Kayeli by Wallace, Forbes, Doherty 

 and Dumas. Forbes obtained it also on Lake Wakolo, Dumas on Mount Mada, 

 at about 31)00 feet above the sea. The species is known from Amboina, t'eram and 

 Burn. The colour of the crown is very variable, being sometimes much lighter, 

 sometimes deeper rufous-cinnamon. Tlie young birds before me have the feathers 

 of the crown deep rufuus-cimiamou, only blackish at the utmost base, like the 

 adult ones. 



57. Reinwardtoena reiuwardtsi albida subsp. nov. 



The Buru-form of the genus Reinwartoena* differs from the form inhabiting 

 the Northern Moluccas and New Guinea in being much more whitish below. The 

 underside is almost pure white without the lavender-grey coloration so conspicuous 

 in most forms of R. reimnirdtsi.\ This is only to be seen on the sides of the 

 breast and flanks, and on the under tail-coverts. AVing S 235, ? 225 mm. Iris 

 chocolate-brown. Type : Mount Mada, Burn, 3000 feet, Dumas coll. This species 

 seems to be rare on Burn, as neither Wallace, Forbes, nor Doherty procured it 

 there. Two specimens, S and ? , however, were shot by Dumas, and there is 

 one labelled Buru in the Leiden Museum. Probably the Amboina and Ccram 

 specimens will belong to my albida. 



The distribution and the geographical variation of Eeinwardt's Pigeon is very 

 interesting. The original type was erroneously stated to be from Celebes, but seems 

 to have come from one of the Northern Moluccas. This form, to which I have 

 restricted the name of reinwanltsi, has the abdomen more or less washed with 

 lavender-grey. In the Bull B. 0. Club, v. VII. p. 35 (February 1898) I have 

 described sjiecimens from Obi Major as R. r. obfensis, but a moulting skin received 

 from Mr. Lucas, and the fading of the yellowish buff on the chin and cheeks in the 

 collection have shown me that the colouration is not natural, but is the result of the 

 juice of some kind of fruit.} A similar staining is also visible in the Buru speci- 

 mens. As it is, I cannot separate C)bi s])ecimcns from tyjiical rcinirardtsi, although 

 one of them is practically as white as my albida from Burn. The darker New Guinea 



* This is the original spelling, but in the same ye.ir (1854) it appeared also in the form of 

 Jteinwardtnenas ; this name, varied with ae and oe and with or without *, has always been in use, until 

 in 1890 Heine invented for it the unnecessary substitute Coccyznenas, which nobody accepts. 



t Thus originally spelt. 



X This case is similar to the one of the supposed Sylvia gutaris from the Cape Verde Islands, only 

 there attention had been called to the real facts long ago. 



