46 Mr. R. B. Sharpens Contributions to the 



streaks^ the female in full green plumage, like the first-men- 

 tioned male. 



I have compared these Sibu birds with a large series from 

 Sarawak {Wallace), Malacca {Wallace), E. Java {Wallace), 

 and Tenasserim {Packman), and I find them all identical. 

 The Philippine bird is duller and more bronzy, with a slightly 

 stronger bill, as pointed out by Count Salvadori ; but the slight 

 purplish violet shade mentioned by him is not a character, as it 

 exists in Malaccan skins sometimes. The Philippine species 

 is C. panayensis (Scop.), and measures 4" 15 inches in the 

 wing, which is about the size of C. chalybea. 



C. tytleri, from the Andamans and Nicobars, must be kept 

 distinct : it is dull-coloured, like the Philippine species, but 

 very much larger : wing 4*5 inches. Lord Walden considers 

 it to be the same as continental examples of C. affinis (Ibis, 

 1874, p. 145). I have four specimens before me from the 

 Islands of the Bay of Bengal ; and I cannot consider them 

 quite the same as two Tenasserim birds, which, in tint of green 

 and in size, agree with Malaccan ones. C. tytleri, however, is 

 not a very strongly marked species. [Cf. also Lord Walden^s 

 recent observations (Ibis, 1871, p. 461).] 



The following remarks apply to Lord Walden's synopsis 

 of the genus Calornis (Tr. Z. S. viii. pp. 79, 81), where the 

 best review of the genus is to be found : — 



C. nefflecta, Walden, I.e.. Hab. Celebes and Sula Islands. 

 The single Celebean specimen {Meyer) in the Museum not 

 being quite full-plumaged, I cannot speak with certainty as 

 to its complete identity with the Sula-Island bird ; but the 

 shade of green seems darker in the latter. Lord Walden, 

 however, who has had better series to examine than I have, 

 says they are the same. The long tail (4"4 inches) will dis- 

 tinguish this species from C. chalybea, which it approaches 

 in colour ; it measures nearly an inch more than in the latter 

 bird, whose tail does not seem to exceed 3" 5 inches, 



Calornis obscura, Forst. A very dull green species, of 

 which the Museum has a series of specimens from Batchian, 

 Gilolo, and Morty, all collected by Mr. "Wallace. 



Calornis crassirostris, Walden, /. c. p. 80. This species I 



