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markedly smaller — to find mli-adorii on nil the S.W. Islands, or a tliiid race 

 on the more western one, but hardly the large one on the S.E. Islands, Key 

 and Webber and Roma, with a small one between on Teuimber and the more 

 eastern S.AV. Islands. Mr. Kiihn sent the following specimens : 



3c?c?, 3 ??, Letti, November, December 1902. (Nos. 6U2(J— 01120, 642',), 

 6430.) 



6 "<?," 1 ? jnv. Moa, November, December 1902. (Nos. 6200, 02i(], 6265, 

 6321, 6322, 6386, 6387.) 



1 c?, 2 ? ?, Wetan, near Babber, February 1897. W. Doherty coll. 



125. Philemon cineraceus (Bp.) 



Tnipidorhtinrhus c;«/;ra«»s Bonaparte, Cnitxp. Ar. i. p. 390 (1850: ex Miiller MS. in Mus. 

 Lugdun. "ex Timor." The locality Timor is probably an error, because on that island we 

 find the totally different PhUemon inonialiis Gray 1849 {Gen. B. pi.,— without locality, but 

 according to specimens in Brit. Mus. from Timor), which is apparently the same as 

 Tropiiliirhijiuhiis i-iilturinim .Tacq. & Puch. 185.3, if the latter came from Timor. Bonaparte's 

 description is very short and useless, but I suppose we must accept his name, as Dr. Finsch 

 found the type to agree with the birds from Letti and Kisser.) 



Mr. Kiihn sent the following specimens : 



9 (? ? , Letti, November, December 1902. (Nos. 5970, 5971, 6051, 6498—6503.) 

 6 <? ? , Moa, December 1902. (Nos. 6285—6287, 6388—6390.) 

 24 (??, Kisser, April, May 1901. (Nos. 3796, 3812, 3819, 3957, and twenty 

 without numbers.) 



" Iris dnll brown (dark or dull cotfee-brown), feet plumbeous (dark plumbeous, 

 blackish), bill black, bare parts whitish grey." 



The females are smaller than the males. tj wing 133—137, ? about 

 120 — 123 mm. The sides of the head are bare of feathers (while in Ph. 

 tnornatus there is only a bare line under and behind the eye). Tiie feathers of 

 the jugulum are rounded, in fresh plumage with a pure white drop-shaped hard 

 tip and ashj'-white almost to the base (while in Ph. inornatiis they are elongated 

 and pointed, the basal half dark-brown). The upperside is pale brownish-grey 

 (not dark ashy-brown), the wings are longer. There is much variation, probably 

 according to age. Sometimes there is a bright yellow on the sides on the 

 foreneck, and nearly the whole throat is yellow, while the wings are margined 

 with greenish or yellowish — these birds are probably younger ; in others there 

 is no sign of yellow, the outer edges of the wings are clear ashy grey — these 

 are apparently the oldest birds. 



120. Philemon timoriensis (Miill.). 



Tropidorhi/mliiis linwrieiisis S. MuUer, Wrli. Laml-ui \',:ll.vi,I.: p. 153 (1839-44: Timor and 



Semao). 

 Philemon timoriensis Finsch, Notes Lei/den .Um.s. xxii. p. "273 (Wetter). 



13 <??, Wetter, September, October 1902. (Nos. 5432—5436, 5451, and 

 seven without numbers.) 



"Iris smoky-grey, feet plumbeous (blackish grey), bill black." 

 It may be desirable to separate the Wetter form, because the bill is 

 generally longer, the distance from the end of the knob to the tip of the bill 

 is about 2 to 4 mm. less; but in two specimens this is not evident, and, our series 

 of typical timoriensis from Timor and Savu consisting only of seven specimens, it 

 would be hazardous to give a name to the Wetter form. The crown is also lighter 

 in most, but not all, Wetter specimens. 



