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Captain in the Dutch Army, and of appreciation of his extreme kinclr-css 

 and hosi^itality, and of the greatest possible assistance rendered hy him 

 to me in Sumatra, and more especially in Araboina to my wife and myself, 

 lx)th before and after our return from the Tenimbcr Islands. Dr. ^[avhik 



is well known in the Archipelago for his extensive collections of Mulusca 

 fishes, snakes, and insects. [H. 0. F.] 



42. Gkocichla schistacea, Meyer, op. cit. 



43. Pitta yigorsii, Ged. fide Meyer, 



44. MUNIA MOLUCCA, L. 



45. EUYTHRURA TUICHROA, Kittl. 



46. Caloknis gularis, G. E. Gr. 



C. metalUca, Sclatcr, P. Z. S. loc. snp. cit. 

 C, circtimscrfj)ia, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 



The species of Calornls from the Tenimlicr Is]an<1s has been distin- 

 guished fi'om C. mctaUica as a new specie.^, C, circuviscripta by Dr. Meyer, 

 1 have a large series of skins in my collection, and that they belong to a 

 species distinct from C. mefalh'ca is undoubted, and, ns Dr. ]\Ieyer observes, 

 they can, when mixed up with any number of species of Calornts, be un- 

 hesitatingly picked out by the coloration of tlie throat. The throat-plumes 

 in C. metaUica are prominently longer an<l more mucroiiato than those in 

 the Timor-laut speciniens. The violet of the mantle, however, contrary 

 to the note of Dr. Meyer, has the blne-grcen reflexions observable in (. 

 metalUca quite distinct in most of my specimens, if the eye be^*])laced 

 between tho bird and the light" in position A, as (]escril>ed by Dr.(iadow 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 409), that is with "the eye and the light almost in a 

 level with the planes to be examined." A species of Calornts discovered 

 by Mr. Wallace in Mysol (of which the type is in the British Sluseum) 

 was named C. gularis by G. IJ. Gray; but was considered hy Count 

 Salvador! (the label bearing the name in his handwriting) as C. metalUca, 

 while it remained unique. After comparison of this fckin with Timor- 

 laut specimens, the two arc iihqiiestionahhj identical. C. circumscripta 

 aiever) must, therefore, be considered henceforth a synonym of C. gulnrh, 

 G. E. Gr., which must now be removed from being a synonvni of C. 

 metaUica to specific rank, confirming the opinion esprcsi-cd in 187GC D>i^. 

 p. 46) by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, who gays: "I must nrononnce this, 

 contrary to Lord AValden's opinion, a very good species, distinguished by 

 its purple throat and small lill, the culmen ordy mcasnrmg -Go inch, as 

 against -85 in C. virideseemr This mensuiement is not the only one by 

 which tho s],ecies can bo distinguished, for the i^Iumagc in every Ppccimcn 

 is so constant that the skins cannot easily be confomidcd with any otlier 

 (I gtdaris is slightly less, and more brightly metallic— a more boniitilul 

 1>ird, in my opinion, even than the true C. metaUica ; the purple of the 

 throat, wliich is more chastely and delicately feathered than m 6. 

 mdalUca, is separated from the ]mrp!c of the back and upper breast by a 

 narrow and very bright green banrl 'ihe total ^^gth of t ho bird m 14 

 specimens ranged from 210-250 millim. Count Salyadori (I /. b., lb7tJ, 

 p. 89) remarki: " Some specimens (of C. metaUica} have the throat more 

 purplish than others, one from Mysol (C.gv?aris Gray) cannot be 

 separated from othcr.s from Halmaheira and Cape) oA._^ I have not ^ 

 any H 

 by the 



band i.-, iii»A^u ^uuulii;*, ui^^^ -'- -" , ^ — o i 



out purple. It lias, I believe, l)een separated as C./>ur/>./ra.s..«.S Salv 



The Admiralty-Island Calomis is somewhat amilar to C. gnlans, but is at 



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