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do not know, and I should doubt its locality being Lombock. 

 Of its habitat, however, Lord Walden is not certain. 



Calornis mysolensis, Gray. Hab. Mysol, Bouru, Ceram, 

 Salwatti. From all of these places Wallacian specimens are 

 before me. The species, as Lord Walden observes, is scarcely 

 separable from C. obscura, but it is rather stouter. The C. 

 cantoroicles of Mr. G. R. Gray, considered by Mr. Wallace 

 to be a good species, is, in my opinion, nothing but C. myso- 

 lensis before it has quite completed its long tail : none of the 

 four specimens before me seems to be full-plumaged. 



Calornis pacifica (Gm.), of which I have an example from 

 the Caroline Islands, is nothing but a slightly more metallic 

 race of C. mysolensis, with a still stouter bill. 



Calornis metallica. The figure in the ' Planches Coloriees ' 

 suits best the Australian bird. Temmiuck gives the habitat 

 of his species as Timor and Celebes, from neither of which 

 places has such a Calornis yet been seen. I therefore unite C. 

 purpurascens of Gray to C. metallica, as a pair of birds collected 

 at Cape York by the late Mr. Macgillivray agree well with 

 Temminck's figure. A Goram specimen is also identical. 

 At the same time the only difl:erence between C. metallica 

 and C viridescens is the greater amount of purple on the sides 

 of the body, a very variable character. 



Calornis amboinensis, Gray. Lord Walden gives its cha- 

 racters as closely resembling the Australian species, but 

 smaller. It is intermediate between that and C. viridescens, 

 and has only a little purple gloss on the sides of the body ; 

 its bill, however, is slightly shorter than either, but the wing 

 agrees with some examples of each of the above species ; so 

 that the smaller size does not go for much. The Ceram bird 

 is identical ; and I see no reason for separating either from 

 C. viridescens. 



Calornis viridescens, Gray. I cannot find any difference 

 between examples collected by Mr. Wallace in the following 

 localities — Sula Island (1), Gilolo (2), Ternate (1), Mata- 

 bello (2), N. Ceram (1), Aru Islands (4). 



Calornis gularis. The type specimen, from Mysol, is now 

 lying before me ; and I must pronounce this, contrary to Lord 



