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39. Myiagra galeata <n-ay. 



Myiagra galeata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860. p. 352 (Batjan). 



A .series from Obi Jlajor agree with Batjan specimens, and are therefore typical 

 Myiagra galeata. 



Dr. Finsch (Xotes Leyden Mus. xxii. p. 203, 1901) declares that Myiagra 

 goramensis Sharpe, described from a single specimen, evidently with an abnormal or 

 discoloured bill, is specifically valueless. It is doubtless true that the distribution 

 hitherto accepted for these forms — i.e., M. galeata ranging from the Northern 

 Moluccas to Burn and Amboina, and M. goramensis alone on Goram, is incorrect ; 

 but at the same time it is true that there are local differences between these birds. 

 All those before me from Batjan, Halmahera, and Olii have the crown of a glossy 

 greenish steel-black, in contrast to the slaty grey-blue liack and rump; the lores, a 

 narrow line on the forehead, just above the bill, are of the deepest black, the ear- 

 coverts blackish. The wing (males) measures 65 — 70 mm. 



The specimens from Goram have the crown not glossy greenish steel-black, but 

 metallic slate-grey, scarcely or only little darker than the back and rump. The lores 

 are also black ; the ear-coverts are blackish. The wing measures 73 — 74 mm. The 

 examples from Bnru have the head like those from Goram, or even still paler, not in 

 any marked contrast to the back and rump. The lores are less blackish, not much 

 deeper than the crown, like the ear-coverts ; wing 68 — 71 mm. I am, therefore, 

 obliged to distinguish three subspecies, from the inales alone, the females being not 

 very distinct, and our series of them rather poor. 



A. Myiagra galeata galeata Gray : lores and line on forehead deep black, ear- 

 coverts rather blackish, crown very dark steel-green, in marked contrast to the back, 

 wings 65 — 70 mm. Northern Moluccas. (Specimens from Batjan, Halmahera, Ternate, 

 and Obi examined.) 



B. Myiagra galeata goramensis Sharpe : similar to A, but crown less dark, less 

 in contrast to the back, wing rather longer, 73 — 74 mm. Goram and Ceramlaut 

 (Kuhn coll.). 



C. Myiagra galeata huruensis subsp. nov. : head scarcely in contrast to the 

 back, lores and ear-coverts not deep black, absolutely no dark line on forehead, wing 

 68-71. Buru. 



Type: c?, Kayali, Buru, October, 1898, No. 2391, Dumas coll. (Everett's label), 

 in Mus. Rothschild. 



40. Muscicapa griseisticta (Swinh.) (Migrant). 

 ?, Obi -Major, 1. iv. 1902, Wat erst radt's hunters. (Migi-ant from the north.) 



41. Cryptoloplia everetti waterstradti subsp. nov. 



Cryptolopha, (J. everetti dictae typicae .-imillimus, sed gula maxima pro parte 

 flavescente, gula summa modo albida. 



If ah : In montibus insularum Batjan et Obi Major dictarum. Typus ex Batjan. 



Mr. Jolin Waterstiadt sent one skin from Obi Major, obtained on April 16th, 

 1902, and tliirty-one from I'.atjan, shot in the mountains between 5000 and 7000 ft. 

 All these birds resemble the bird descrilx'd liy me as AcaMhopieuate* everetti [Nov. 



• It will iluutitlcs-i rippear ti> bo vo-y iricoiisistcnt llial 1 \t\-ACn\ tliis liiid two ycms ago in Acanthii- 

 imcustc, now in (Yijpt»\«pha. Hut on several occasions 1 have already rcmarkcil that there is a group 

 nt birds neither agreeing properly with typical Cniptolojiha, nor with PliyUuscojms. I am, however^ 



