80 ON BIRDS FROM MERAUKE, 
specimens from Timor and from Samao near Timor, col- 
lected by S. Müller. 
Ptilinopus coronulatus G. R. Gray. 
Cf. Van Oort, Le. p. 65. 
Three specimens. 
Ptilinopus aurantiifrons G. R. Gray. 
CE. Van Oort, Le. p. 65. 
One specimen. 
Eelectus pectoralis (P. L. S. Müller). 
Cf. Van Oort, Le. p. 71. 
One male. 
Ptistes erythropterus coccineopterus Gould. 
Ptistes coccineopterus Gould, Handb. B. Austr. II, 1865, p. 39. 
Ptistes erythropterus, Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XX,1891, p. 481 (partim). 
One female. 
This example belongs to the smaller western form of 
Ptistes erythropterus (Gmelin). Wing 185, tail 142, culmen 
18 mm. This form has not been recorded from New Guinea. 
Chalcopsitta scintillatus (Temminck). 
Cf. Van Oort, l.c. p. 73. 
One specimen. 
The under wingcoyerts are red. 
Ninox connivens assimilis Salvadori & D’Albertis. 
Ninor assimilis Salvadori & D’Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 
VII, 1875, p. 809. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 81. 
Ninox connivens assimilis, Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. XIV, 
1907, p. 445. 
One male. 
Wing 262 mm. This bird much resembles Ninos con- 
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