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8. salvadorii, a. B. Meyer, Zeitscbr. ges. Orn. i. Tenimber Is. 

 p. 217 (1884). 

 [Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii. p. 171, 1901.] 



9. kebirensis, A. B. Meyer, I. c. p. 218. Le.sser Suuda Is. 



[= sguamata, teste Finsch, Notes Leyden Miis. (Kebir Isl. 



xxii. p. 270, 1901.] Babbar Isl). 



10. notabilis, Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. xx. p. 130 Lesser Sunda Is. 

 (1898). (Wetter Isl.). 



11. blasii, Salvad., Oni. Pap. iii. pp. 543, 566 (1882).* Molucca Is. 



[C/.SalTad. Ibis, 1884, p. 327.] (Oeram. Amboyna). 



XIX. PTILOTIS, Swains. 



[Swainson, Classif. B. ii. p. 326, 1837; 

 Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 326, 1881; 

 Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 222, 1884 ; 

 Eotbscbild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. x. pp. 441-448, 1903.] 



1. carunculata (G'«.). (p. 225.)t 



Tonga Is. 

 Samoa Is. 

 Fiji Is. 

 (Matuka. Lomaloma). 



2. procerior, Finsch cj- Hartl. (p. 225, pt.) 



Fiji Is. 

 (Viti Levu. 

 Ovalau. Kandavu. 

 Wakaia). 



* Omitted from the ' Catalogue of Birds.' 



t Cf. Wigleswortb's critique (Abliaudl. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, No. G, p. 34). 

 "The fine series of 43 specimens in the British Museum which have been united by 

 Dr. Gadow under the name of P. carunculata will be fuund to belong more properly to 

 two species, r. carunculata and P. procerior, and several distinct insular subspecies,' 

 etc., etc. 



