102 STTTRNID.E. 



small, and those on the sides of the occiput and nape scarcely 

 developed. 



Hub. Sumbawa and Flores. 



a-c. Ad.; d, e. .Iuv.sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Flores (TFa//ace). Tweeddale Coll. 



3. Mainatus javanensis. 



Corvus javanensis, Osbeck, Iter. p. 102 (1757) ; id. Vuy. (Engl, 

 transl.), p. 157 (1771). 



Graciila religiosa (nee L.), Eajfl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 303 

 (1820); Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 330 (1845). 



Eulabes javanensis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 162 (1820). 



? Gracula religiosa, Vieii'l. Gal. Ois. i. p. 144, pi. 95 (1825). 



Eulabes javanus, Cuvier, Reyne Anim. i. p. 377 (1829). 



Mainatus javanus, Less. Traite, p. 357 (1831). 



Mainatus sumatranus, Less. Traite, p. 357 (1831). 



Gracula javanensis, Blyth, J. A. S. Benq. xv. p. 31 (184G) ; id. Cat. 

 B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 107 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 422(1850); 

 Motle^j Si- Dilhc. Nat. Hist. Labmm, p. 25 (1855) ; Schl. N. T. D. 

 i. p. 5, pi. i. fig. 3 (1863) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219 ; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 274 (1874) ; SJiarpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 107 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 

 1877, p. 319 ; Bri'n/gem. Ahhandl. nut. Ver. Bremejj, v. p. 461 

 (1877); Sharjie, This, 1879, p. 262; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 346; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 138 (1879) ; Nichols. Ibis, 

 1881, p. 1.53; Eelham, t. c. p. 620; Nichuls. Ibis. 1882, p. 63, 

 1883, p. 25 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 393 (1883) ; Snellem. in 

 VetJi. Midden-Simuitra, Vog. p. 43 (1844) ; Biittih. Notes Let/den 

 Mus. ix. p. 71 (1887). 



Gracula javaua, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 156 (1844) ; 

 Cab. Mns. Hein. Th. i. p. 207 (1850) ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 334. 



Eulabes javanensis, Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 

 p. 624 (1866); Moore^ P. Z. S. iHm, p. 444; Stoliczka, J.A.S. 

 Ben;/, xxxix. p. 326 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 18, no. 6267 

 (1870); Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 176; Hume ^- Davison, Str. F. 

 vi. p. 396 (1878, pt.) ; Htime, Str. F. 1879, pp. 66, 106. 



Adult. Glossy black with the following reflexions : — back purple 

 from the hind neck ; lower back, ramp, and upper tail-coverts oil- 

 green with scarcely any purple ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts 

 steel-green with the faintest admixture of purple ; median coverts 

 black with a narrow steel-green edging, which is scarcely perceptible 

 on the greater coverts, which are black like the primary-coverts, 

 bastard-wing, and quills, the inner secondaries only having a metallic 

 lustre on the inner web and steel-green edgings like the greater 

 coverts, but more distinct ; the primaries with a white patch at 

 about one third distance from the base, occurring on both webs of 

 all but the outermost primary, where it occurs only on the inner 

 web, and represented on the innermost spotted primary by merely a 

 white mark on the outer web ; tail-feathers black with a greenish 

 .shade ; head velvety black, with a strong purple lustre down the 

 centre of the crown, with a very faint tinge of steel-grccn ; lores, 

 sides of face, and clieeks black with a green gloss sliglitly tinged 

 with purple ; under surface of body black with a gloss as follows — 



