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2 Koustautinbafen (Kubaiy coll.) 



1 cJ ad., 1 cJ jnv., 1 ? Stei)liansort (E. Nymau coll.). 

 cJ ? Simbaug (E. Nyman coll.). 



2i). Sauromarptis tyro Gray. 



Evidently restricted to the Am group of islands. We liave received six skins 

 collected at Dobbo, Wanambai, and on Trangan, Aru Islands, by H. Kiibn and 

 C. Webster. Kiihu describes the iris as coffee-brown ; feet dirty greenish-white ; 

 the npper bill black, lower bill whitish "colourless." 



21. Halcyon macleayi Jard. & Selby. 



The distrilmtion of this bird is from Northern Australia to South-Eastern New 

 Guinea, and we have also now received it from the Key Islands, where its occurrence 

 is rather unexpected. Hhi.' female differs from the 7/iale in wanting the white collar 

 round the hiudueck. Young birds have the collar above and the white loral 

 patches more or less rusty, blackish borders to the feathers of the breast, and the 

 feathers of the npperside with rusty margins. The flanks are either pure white or 

 more or less tinged with rust-colour. We are not sure that the amount of rust- 

 colour on the flanks is always a sign of immaturity, as it seems to occur also in 

 apparently adult individuals. 



We have before us the following specimens of typical macleayi : — 



3 ? North Queensland (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 3 « Queensland." 



2 ? Cooktown, Queensland (Olive coll.) (ex Robinson). 



2 (J ad., 2 ? ad., 1 cj juv. Cape York (A. S. Meek's assistant coll.)."' 

 c? Naiabui, Southern New Guinea (D'Albertis coll.). 



(S ? Ibrah, Little Key group, 10.5.1000. "Iris dark coffee-brown, feet black, 

 bill black, mandible with white base." 



2 c?, 2 ? St. Aignan, Lonisiades (A. S. Meek coll.). 



3 c?, 1 ? Fergusson, D'Entrecasteaux group (A. 8. Meek coll.). 

 ¥ Trobriand Islands (A. S. Meek coll.). 



1 Woodlark Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 ? Collingwood Bay (A. S. Meek coll.) 



2 ? Simbaug, Huon Gulf (Erik Nyman coll.). 



22. Halcyon elisabeth (Heine). 



This rare bird is iprobably a northern representative of macleayi. It agrees 

 with the latter in the differences between the sexes and the white base of the lower 

 bill, as well as in the general colouration. It differs in being larger, in having the 

 ni)perside all blue, not merging into greenish cobalt, and the white occipital patch 

 apparently more concealed. 11. elisabeth stands here with a binomial name as a 

 species, as, according to Madarasz (Term. FUzetek 1890, j)p. 4(j8, 400), both maeleayi 

 and elisabeth were obtained at Erima by L. Biro. 



This rare form is only known from Kaiser Wilhelm's Land, and we are inclined to 

 think that it does represent wariff'^j/i there during the breeding time, notwithstanding 

 the occurrence of both at Erima, and that it will ultimately rank as a subspecies of 

 macleayi. It was originally described without definite locality (see Heine, J.J'.O. 



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