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present is to list my birds under the above name until we know 

 more about the distribution and relationship of these large cuckoos. 

 In the original description of the above form I identified two 

 immature specimens from Parigi as belonging to Rham'phocoGGyx 

 c. calorhynohus. This I am now convinced was an error and that 

 they are really more or less intermediate between the two forms; 

 accordingly, I have reduced my supposed species to a race. 



A female taken at Pinedapa, Jan. 11, 1918, contained eggs with soft 

 shells. Feet and tarsus black ; skin about eyes black ; tip of upper mandible 

 with no color pigment for 5 mm., then black for 10 mm., then chrome yellow, 

 which extends about 100 mm., gradually becoming sulphurous yellow ; space 

 near nostril and lower mandible, red. — H. C. R. 



Family PICIDAE. 



WOODPECKERS. 

 129. YUNGIPICUS TEMMINCKI (Malherbe). 



A male and female, Likoepang, March 9, 1916 ; two males and one 

 female, Toewo Mountain, Besoa, October 28-November 3, 1917 ; two 

 males and one female, Rano Rano, December 12-22, 1917. 



130. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FULVUS FULVUS (Quoy and Gaimard). 



A good species from : Paleleh River, August 17, 1914 ; Kwandang, 

 October 8, 1914; Paleleh, November 10-13, 1914; Toll Toll, Novem- 

 ber 25-December 3, 1914; Tandjong Penjoe, February 17-20, 1915; 

 Likoepang, January 18, and March 2-12. 1916; Koeala Prang, June 

 3-15 ; Manembo Nembo, June 24, 1916 ; Toemaratas, July 3, 1916. 



A specimen (No. 249656) marked as a female, from Toemaratas, 

 July 3, has a band of scarlet tipped feathers on the forehead; it is 

 apparently an adult bird as it shows no indication of immaturity, 

 indeed the plumage is somewhat worn below. It seems to indicate 

 that very old females develop a few red feathers on the forehead. 



A few specimens of either sex develop light spots to the tips of 

 the feathers of the chest which apparently are soon worn oif and 

 some even have small light spots on the mantle; the latter variation 

 being rarer than the first. 



131. LICHTENSTEINIPICUS FULVUS INTERMEDIUS (Meyer)." 



A good series from the following localities: Parigi, September 

 20, 1916; Toboli, October 21, 1916; Laboea Sore, November 28, 1916; 

 Rano Lindoe, March 14-16, 1917 ; Tamboe, June 13, 1917 ; Gimpoe, 

 August 4^27, 1917; Toewo Mountain, Besoa, November 1, 1917; 

 Rano Rano, December 8-19, 1917; Pinedapa, February 6, 1918. 



'^* Microstictua intcrmcdius Meyer, Notes Leyden Museum, vol. 23, 1901, p. 186 (Gimpu). 



