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and Ceylon, through the Burmese couutries to Southern China, and through the 

 Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands as far as Sumbawa, also Celebes. 



2. Amaiirornis plioenicurus insularis : adnlt birds with forehead, lores and 

 sides of head white as in No. 1, but breast and abdomen deep slaty black, nearly 

 black, with a white line along the middle. Had. Andamans and Nicobars. 



3. Amauroniis pkoenicunis leucoimlaena : adult birds with forehead, lores 

 and sides of head white, breast and abdomen slate-colour, white along the middle. 

 Ilai. Timor group of islands from Flores, Timor, Wetter, Roma, and Tukan- 

 Besi Islands south of Celebes, the latter somewhat intermediate, as are apparently 

 also some specimens from Flores, though they are certainly not true phoeidcurm. 



Mr. Kiihn sent the following specimens from the S.W. Islands: 2 tJcJ, 1 ?, 

 Roma, July 1002. (Nos. 5129, .'ilSo, 5320.) 2 cJ ad., 1 i juv., 3 ??, Wetter, 

 September, October 1002. (Nos. 5437, 5066, 5767—5770.) 



" Jris burnt-sienna red (chocolate, scarlet, coffee-brown), feet dull browu 

 (pale ochreous, brownish ochreous, olive-brown), bill green with red frontal shield 

 and nostrils (dirty olivaceous witli vermilion base, bright green below)." 



21. Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieill.) 



Porphyrin cinereus Vieillot, Xouv. Diet, xxviii. p. 2'J (1819 : no locality). 



d ad., Wetter, 27. x. 1002 (No. 5875). 



22. Porphyrio melanotus Temm. 



Purphijrio melanotus Temminck, Man. d'Orii. ii. p. 701 (1820 : " Nouvelle Hollande"). 



1 ? ad., Wetter, 13, x. 1002 (No. 5774). "Iris scarlet; feet reddish flesh- 

 colour with greyish joints; bill vermilion." 



This bird seems to agree fully with typical mdanotm from Australia. 



A specimen recorded by me under the name of " F. smaragdinus " from St. 

 Aignan belongs to P. melanotus. Dr. Sharpe {Cat. B. xxiii.) distinguishes between 

 "P. calctis" and "P. simtragdiiiHS.'" It is, however, clear that 7'. calms, 

 P. iiulicm Horsf. and P. smarw/diitus are synonyms of the Java-Sumatra form. 

 The birds called calvus have the thighs greenish, and in both se.xes and all 

 ages a verditer-blue chest patch, while in the birds I call P. melanotus only 

 the male seems to have this differently coloured patch, and the thighs are not 

 greenish blue, but blackish blue or purjilish blue-black, like the flanks. If this 

 view is correct there are two subspecies : 



1. P. calvus calvus liSlO (iitdicus and smantijdiims synonyms) : Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo to Celebes. 



2. P.calcus melanot/ts l>i20 {sinara//di/ins Sharpe, Ca;*. fl.,but not Temm. (!) 

 synonym) : Moluccas and Timor group of islands to Australia, New Guinea, New 

 Zealand, and perhaps Fiji and New Hebrides. 



LARIDAE. 



23. Sterna bergii Licht. 



Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, Verz. Dmibl. p. 80 (1823 : Cape of Good Hope). 



5 t? ? ad., Moa, November 1902. (Nos. 0361—6305.) 

 2c??, Letti, November 19o2. (Nos. 6o41, 6042.) 



