152 Count Salvadori on some Papuan, 



the Turin Museum, and they both belong to Cy clopsHtacus 

 diopJithalmus , and uot to C aruensis, which is the southern 

 representative form^ confined to South New Guinea and the 

 Aru Islands. 



Edoliisoma remotum, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 3.2. 



The male specimen mentipned by Dr. Nehrkorn, which 

 has been presented to the Turin Museum, cannot possibly 

 be attributed to E. remotum, Sharpe, from the far-distant 

 New Ireland group, having the throat and cheeks shining 

 black ; it is very much like the male of ^. meyeri, Salvad., from 

 Mysori in Geelvink Bay, from which it scarcely differs, being 

 only a little lighter; but I feel quite confident that when the 

 female of the Waigiou bird is fouml, it will turn out to 

 differ from the female of E. meyeri much more than the 

 males of the two allied species do. In the geims Edoliisoma 

 the females of allied species constantly dift'er, iniei' se, much 

 more than the fully adult males. 



Hermotimia auriceps, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 33. 



The single female of this species mentioned by Dr. Nehr- 

 korn is rightly identified, but it has been included, by 

 mistake, among the birds from Waigiou, while, as shown by 

 the original label, it is from Galela (Helmaheira). H. auri- 

 ceps is confined to the Halmaheira group, and has never been 

 found out of it. 



Calornis obscura, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 33. 



Dr. Nehrkorn mentions three specimens from Waigiou, 

 and he has already noticed them as being so different from 

 one another that he could scarcely recognize them as be- 

 longing to the same species. I have been able to examine 

 one of them, an adult bird, and I think that it belongs to 

 C. cantor oides. 



CoRVUs VALiDissiMus, Nclirkom, ibid. p. 34. 



I have not been able to inspect the specimen mentioned 

 by Dr. Nehrkorn, which is now in the Berlin Museum ; but 

 knowing that C vaJidissimus is confined to the Hahnaheira 

 group, I suspected that the specimen alluded to from Waigiou 



