( ifiv ) 

 1~. Eurystomus orientalis australis Hw, 



cJ, ?, Larat. 



13. Scythrops novaehoUandiae Lath. 

 One male from Larat. 



14. Chalcococcyx crassirostris Salvad. 



One adnlt imle from Larat, shot on February 18th, 1901, in moult, agrees 

 perfectly with specimens from the Key Islands, which seem to be the same as the 

 Amboina form, and which are Salvadori's crassirostris. 



15. Caprimulgus macrurus Horsf. 

 One/emale from Yamdena, S.l.lOUl. 



16. Heteranax mundus (Sol.). 



See Nov. Zool. VIL p. 14, where the sexes are described. We have now 

 received a series from Larat, and one from Selaru. They confirm my description of 

 the adult male a,xid/emale and yonng. 



17. Monarcha castus Scl. 



The male is described and figured liy Sclaterin P.Z.S. 1883, pp. .01, 53, PI. XII. 

 The apparently adnlt /('wrr/t' differs in having the throat white, with black bases to the 

 feathers ; the blaclc forehead is connected by a blaclv line with the black nape ; the 

 back is deep brownish black instead of pure black ; the wing is about 3 or 4 mm. 

 shorter. What appears to be the young in lioth sexes has the head and neck above 

 slaty grey, lores utmost, forehead, feathers round eyes whitish, rest of upperside dark 

 brown, tips to tail-coverts rusty brown, remiges with rufous edges, under-surface 

 white, washed with a brownish rust-colour. 



The nearest known ally to M. castus seems to be M. buruoisis, the malr of 

 which differs in less wide white tips to the rectrices, longer and more widely white 

 feathers in the centre of the throat, and some other minor difieronces. 



We received skins from Larat (Ktihn) and Selarn (Doherty). 



18. Monarcha nitidus (Gould). 



A series oiinales w.\d females from Larat. " Iris blackisli-brown." 

 It would be snri)rising to find on the Tenimber Islands the same form as in 

 Australia. Our Australian material of nitidus being rather poor at present, I do not 

 like to bestow a name on the Tenimber form already ; but it seems that it has a 

 longer bill, and that the back of tha/emalc is of a darker rufous. 



