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Syst. Avium, Corvus , sp. 3 (1827); Bp. Conap. I, p. 386; Schleg. 



Bijdr. Dierk., art. Corvus , p. 9, pi. I, figs. 5 and 6 (1859); id. Mus. 



P.-B., Coraces, p. 19 (1867); Büttik. N. L. M. 1886, p. 65. 

 Corvus ilmoriensis Bp. Notes Coll. Delattre , in C. R. XXXVII, p. 829 



(1853). 

 Corone macrorhyncha Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. Ill, p. 38 (1877). 

 Corvus validissimus Sclat. (nee Schleg.), P. Z. S. 1883, pp.51, 195, 



200; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433. 

 Corvus latirostris Meyer, Zeitsc.hr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 10; Salvad. P. Z. 



S. 1884, p. 580; id., Agg. Orn. Pap. e Moluc. p. 145 (1890). 



Hab. Malacca, Sumatra and Bali (Mus. Britt.), Nias, 

 Borneo, Java (type), Sumbawa , Flores, Timor, Wetter 

 and Timor Laut (Mus. Lugd.). 



Eighteen specimens from the above mentioned localities 

 are in the Leyden Museum. These specimens differ much 

 in size, especially of the bill, but these differences are 

 for a great deal due to the sex , the male being constantly 

 larger than the female (see my comparative measurements 

 in N. L. M. 1886, p. 66). There is also much diöerence , 

 even amongst specimens from the same locality, in the 

 color of the basal part of the feathers , which varies from 

 grayish white (Java) to pure white (Timor Laut). The bird 

 from this latter locality has been described by Dr. Meyer 

 as a new species (C. latirostris) , a view accepted , though 

 with some doubts, by Count Salvadori in his above men- 

 tioned Aggiunte. 



73. Carpophaga consobrina Salvad. 



? Columha perspiciUata Nieuwenh. & Rosenb, Versl. Eil. Nias, p. 20. 



Carpophaga cenea Rosenb. Mai. Arch. p. 220. 



Carpophaga consobrina Salvad. Ucc. di Nias, p. 558; Modigliani, 



Yiagg. a Nias, p. 441, pi. XV; Oust. I.e. pp, 117, 121 ; Salvad. Cat. 



Birds Br. Mus. XXI, p. 186. 



Two adult males (N^^ 210 and 211), and an adult female 

 (N". 212) from Goenoeng Sitoli. 



»Iris red, bill blue with light tip, feet purplish. Native 

 name: Boeroe-oe." 



One of the three birds (N''. 211) differs from the two 



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