13. PHILEMON. 275 



Subspecies a. Philemon jobiensis. 



Tropidorhynchus jobiensis, Meyer, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. p 113 



(1874) ; Sclat. Ibis, 1874, p. 418. 

 Philemon jobiensis, Salv. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 80 (1880) • id 



Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 356. 



In the Jobi Islands, and very probably in the neighbouring parts 

 of New Guinea, P. novcB guinecB seems to be represented by a very 

 similar bird, which, however, has the hump on the base of the 

 culmen much less developed, whilst the bare parts include the 

 greater part of the crown, which is covered with only a few bristle- 

 hke feathers. Wing G-3 inches, tail 5-1, tarsus 1-45. (Salvadori.) 



6. Philemon inornatus. 



Philedon vulturin, Rombr. et Jacq. Vmj. Pole Sud,^\. 18. fi"-. 1 (no 

 description, locality uucertaiu). ° 



Tropidorhynchus inornatus, Gray, Gen. £. i. p. 125 (1846) • Bp C 

 A. i. p. 390. />/'•• 



Tropidorhynchus cineraceus, Miill. Mus. Luod. (teste Bonan ) ■ Bo 

 C. A. i. p. 390 (1850). I )i P- 



Philedon inornatus, Rcichenb. Handb. spec. Ornith. i. p. 141. 



Philedon cinerascens, id. op. cit. p. 142. 



Tropidorhynchus vulturinus, Jacq. et Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. p 88 

 (1H,53). ^ 



Philemon inornatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 159, no 2077 (1809). 



Achdt. Culmen without any protuberance ; only the lores and the 

 region below the eye bare ; sides and crown of head and all the upper 

 parts uniform light brown ; the wing and tail-feathers externally 

 washed with olive-yellow ; all the other parts brownish white, in- 

 clining to pale buff on the abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts; 

 inner margin of quills whitish ; the feathers of the chest and lower 

 fore neck slightly elongated and pointed, but not stiff; terminal 

 half white, basal half mottled pale brownish and grey. Culmen 

 1-2 inch, wing 4-4-4-C), tail 4-1, tarsus 1-2. 



Youwj birds are like the adult, but have the feathers of the chest 

 tipped and washed with bright yellow. 



Hah. Timor. 



o, 6. cJ ; c. 2 ad. sk. Eastern Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C 1 



d. Ad. ; e. Juv. sk. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq | C 1 



/• Ad. sk. Timor, Dec. Gould Collection. 



7. Philemon moluccensis. 



Merops moluccensis, Gm. S. X. i. p. 465 (1788); Lath. Ind Orn i 

 p. 270; Viei/l. Enc. Meth. p. 280. ' " 



Philemon cinereus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 47 (1816); id. Koiw Diet 

 xxvii. p. 422. 



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