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red-flanked bird with white centre tail-feathers is men- 

 tioned in his » Pigeons et Gallinaees". There is no locality 

 mentioned for this specimen. The other specimen is very 

 valuable as we know with certainty that it was obtained 

 near Moeara Dua, Komering, Residency of Palembang , 

 by Mr. G, C. van Schuylenburcb , Assistant Resident at 

 Komering, who sent the skin to the International Exhibi- 

 tion at Amsterdam in 1883 and afterwards presented it, 

 together with a number of other bird-skins from the same 

 district, to the Leyden Museum. 



A third specimen which I am inclined to reckon to 

 this species, especially on account of the ochrous hue on 

 the basal part of the white centre-tail-feathers , is a bird 

 with abnormal plumage , making part of the above mentioned 

 collection of the Zoological Garden at Amsterdam. This 

 bird, a splendid adult male, differs from the normal form 

 in having the feathers on the flanks white instead of red, 

 this latter color being restricted to bronzy red inner edgings 

 on the innermost and ditto tips to the hindmost white 

 flank-feathers. This predominant white color has, in this 

 case, to be considered as albinisme. On the other hand 

 the possibility is not excluded that the bird in question , 

 which had been kept in captivity , might be a hybrid 

 between L. sumatrana and L. Vieilloti. 



The typical male specimen of this species is preserved 

 at the Royal Natural History Museum at Brussels. This 

 bird which I had lately the opportunity to examine , 

 together with the black-tailed specimen described by Dubois 

 as the female of this species (see antea, pp. 171 and 173) 

 is in every respect similar to the two specimens in the 

 Leyden Museum. The rufous color on the flanks is by no 

 means restricted to shaft-streaks , and therefore this species 

 is wrongly ranged in the synonymy of L. rufa sive 

 Vieilloti by Mr. Grant (Cat. B. Br. Mus. XXII, p. 287, 

 foot-note). The ochrous hue on the hidden basal portion 

 of the white tail-feathers is strongly developed, and there- 

 fore Dr. Dubois suggests that this is the original color of 



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