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in fact, Geocickla doherbji very closely, except that all the chcstnnt colour is 

 replaced by ashy grey. The sexes in this group are always alike, while in the 

 sibirka group they are widely different. G. diimasi is a close ally of schistacea. 



43. Erythrura tricolor forbesi Sharp e. 



A fine series from Larat. In quite old males the hinder head and neck is 

 blue, only this colour does not extend over the mantle as it does in K. tricolor 

 tricolor from Timor. The female o^ forbesi is much lighter blue on the under- 

 surface. The yonng is greenish buff below. 



44. Munia punctulata nisoria (Temm.) 



Four males from Larat. All four are remarkably small, the wings reaching 

 from 47 to 49 mm. only. I have, however, specimens from Flores of very 

 different sizes. 



45. Calornis crassa Scl. 



Seven from Larat. The adult female is like the adult male. What Sharpe 

 described {Cut. B. Brit. Mas. XIII. p. 134) as the adult female is an im- 

 mature bird. 



46. Calornis metallica circumscripta A. B. Meyer. 



As 1 have said before (Nov. Zool. VII. p. 17), the Teuimber (Timorlaut) bird 

 must bear the name circumscripta. The name gularis is based on a bird from 

 Mysol (not Morty, as I wrote by mistake), with an exceptionally purjile throat, 

 but the Mysol form is like typical metallica, and certainly not like the Timorlaut 

 and Dammer bird, which has the upper throat beautiful purple, sejiaratcd by a 

 green band from the purple chest-patch, a very narrow green neck-band above 

 (narrower than in typical metallica'), and a much shorter wing than typical 

 metallica. The birds from Mysol are not, in my opinion, separable from metallica. 

 The notes by Ur. Forbes in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1SS4 (pp. 429 and 430) and those of 

 Dr. Sharpe are not correct, principally on account of their not having a series 

 from Mysol. C. m. circumscripta is not a bit nearer to inornata (the Schouten 

 Islands subspecies) than to typical metallica, though in the original description 

 it was chiefly compared with that form. They arc all local forms of one species. 



47. Corvus latirostris A. B. Meyer. 



The Teuimber crow has been rather unfortunate with regard to its names. 

 Sclater {P. Z. S. 1883. pp. 51, 195, 200) called it Cordis i-alitlissimns, but that 

 name refers to a totally different crow with an enormous beak, inhabiting the 

 Moluccan Islands of Batjan, Halmahera and Obi. 



A. B. Meyer {Zcitschr. ges. Orn. I. p. 199, 1884) separated the Teuimber bird 

 correctly as Corvus latirostris, but Biittikofer (Notes Lojdcn Mas. VIII. p. Go, 

 1880, and XVIII. p. 189, 1897) united it wrongly with C. macrorhynckus. He 

 says that "in no respect can it be distinguished from macrorhijnchus," but it 



