Moluccan, and Sulu Birds. lo3 



belonged to Macrocorax fuscicapillus, a large species, with a 

 powerful bill, already known from Waigiou. Dr. Nehrkorn, 

 writing to me on the subject, says that the bird must really 

 have been Corax fuscicapillus, as it had ^' eiuen schonen 

 braunen Kopf/' 



Myristicivora melanura, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 34. 



Out of the seven specimens mentioned, one has been pre- 

 sented to the Turin Museum, and this belongs to M. bicolor, 

 having the under tail-coverts white, without the peculiar 

 black spot of M. melanura. It seems that the species of 

 the Myristicivora group are still not well understood, notwith- 

 standing all I have said about them in my paper " Osservazioui 

 intorno alle Specie del Genere Myristicivora, Rchb." (Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. pp. 265-277), and especially in the 'Orni- 

 tologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche, ^ iii. pp. 107-118. 

 Dr. Guillemard quite lately (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 575) identified 

 one specimen from Halmaheira with M. bicolor; but, judging 

 from the description, I should say that it must belong to 

 M, melanura. 



Having mentioned Dr. Guillemard, I take the opportunity 

 of making a few other remarks on his interesting " Report 

 on the Collections of Birds made during the Voyage of the 

 Yacht ' Marchesa,' " published in the Proceedings of the Zoo- 

 logical Society of London for last year. 



Artamides POLLENS (Salvad.), Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 258. 



This species is included by Dr. Guillemard among the Sulu 

 birds on the evidence of one specimen from Lapac Island. 

 " That this species/' he says, " should be found at such a great 

 distance [Sulu Islands] from the locality whence it was first 

 recorded [Ke Islands] is very curious-"'; " but,"' he continues, 

 " it is not improbable that we may, before long, obtain this 

 species from some of the intermediate localities." I feel 

 quite confident that such will not be the case, knowing that 

 there is already another allied species in an intermediate 

 locality — Artamides schistaceus, Sharpe, of the Sula Islands. 

 Knowing also how localized generally are the Gi'aucali, 



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