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The birds from these various islands agree perfectly with each other, but I am 

 inclined to think that a good material wonld show that the (typical) birds from 

 Amboina and Ceram are generally smaller and of a darker red. 



We can at present distinguish the following forms of Eos bornea : 



Eos bornea bornea : Ceram and Amboina. 



Eos bornea? subsp.? : Ceram-lant, Goram, Manawoka, Taam, Kisoei to the 

 Key Islands. (Said to have occurred on Banda, but Kiihn did not find it there.) 



Eos bornea cyanonotus : Burn (Nov. Zool. vii. p. 228). 



10. Eos reticulata (S. Miiller). 



This beautiful species has hitherto only been known from the Tenimber Islands, 

 but Mr. Kiihn sent ns two from Dammer Island in the Banda Sea (Nov. Zool. 

 VII. p. 19), and two from Toeal, Little Key. He marks the iris as " roe-brown, 

 feet black, bill bright vermilion." The occurrence at Toeal is nne.xpected. See 

 note under Cacatua goffini .' 



Eos reticulata, as well as bornea, have even in skins which are several years 

 old that most peculiar smell with which every visitor of parrot-houses in Zoological 

 Gardens all over the world is only too familiar. This smell is a peculiarity of the 

 Loriidae (? and other Eastern Parrots) like the Petrel- and Cormorant-smell is of 

 their bearers. 



11. Eclectus pectoralis pectoralis (P. L. S. Miill.). 

 Evidently not rare on Little Key (Toeal), and also from Koer and Goram- 

 lant. I cannot separate these specimens from the New Guinea ones. 



12. Cacatua goffini Finsch. 



Mr. Kuhn sent two "males" shot on 18.6.1898 and 18.8.1899 near Toeal, 

 Little Key. These agree perfectly with typical goffini from the Tenimber Islands. 

 Mr. Kiihn marked the " iris as dark brown, feet black, bill white." 



It is remarkable that this cockatoo has never before been found on the Key 

 Islands. Mr. Kiihn also shot Eos reticulata on Toeal. This lory was also only 

 known from Tenimber, though Kiihn also obtained it on Dammer, in the Banda 

 Sea. It might be suspected that these parrots were brought alive by men to Toeal, 

 but we have no proof of this. 



13. Cacatua triton triton (Temm.) 

 Mr. Kiihn sent three from Goram-laut, and two from Ceram-lant. These birds 

 agree in every way with our series from New Guinea. This is most peculiar, as we 

 find smaller forms (C. t. macrolopha) on the Aru Islands, and on the Western 

 Papuan Islands (Mysol, Waigiu and Salwatty). 



14. Nasiterna keiensis Salvad. 



We have a good series from Toeal, Little Key, and one from Doellah, Key 

 Islands. The iris is marked as "coffee-brown, feet and bill dark grey." 



This bird is to ns only known from the Key Islands, but according to Salvador! 

 it occurs also along the Fly River and on the Aru Islands, where, however, neither 

 Kiihn nor Webster came across it. 



(To he t'orifiinied.) 



