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ZooL. Vril. (1900) !>. 239] from the mountains of Bnru ; but, while in the latter 

 the whole throat is dirty white, in C. u'((terstradti the uppermost portion of the 

 throat only is whitish, the rest yellow, or yellowish, the feathers being yellow, whitish 

 in the centre. These birds, therefore, closely resemble the young of G. everetti, which 

 have the entire throat, up to the bill, yellowish, but. the underside is brighter yellow, 

 and it cannot for a moment lie supi)osed that all the thirty-one sjiecimens from Ratjan 

 and the one from Ohi, all alike, are immature — in fact, they are evidently nearly all 

 adult birds. Tlie crown is not so greyish as in G. everetti everetti, nor so olive-green, 

 uniform with the back, as in the young of the latter, but darker, more brownish olive. 

 The sujii'i-ciliarv line is mostly even more obscure. The ear-coverts are very con- 

 spicuously spotted, being deep olive-brown, almost blackish, with whitish centres, 

 much less uniform than in typical everetti. The inner edges to the inner webs of 

 the remiges are more yellowi,sh, as are also the margins to the inner webs of the 

 middle rectrices. The abdomen seems to be, as a rule, deeper and brighter yellow, 

 and the greenish olive of the sides apparently more extended over the abdomen. 

 AVing 55 — Gl, tail 40 — 42 mm. Bill (in skin) black, feet (in skin) slaty. 



Type: "?," Batjan. 5000— 7000 ft., .Tuly 1902. No. B.81. Waterstradt coll., in 

 Mus. Rothschild. 



42. Stoparola panayensis (Sharpe). 



Eumyias panayensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd series, Zool. i. p. 326 

 (1879 : Panay, Philippine Islands). 



I am much puzzled by two flycatchers, marked as male and female, sent by 

 Mr. \Vater.stradt from Obi Major, from 2000 ft. above the sea. They agree with 

 S. panayensis from Panay and Negros in every way, except that the feathers of the 

 chin and throat are slightly brighter blue and much longer. These two specimens, 

 however, are freshly moulted, one showing a few spotted feathers of the juvenile 

 dress, and I believe that in the Philipjiine birds these feathers would be equally long 

 if we had equally freshly moulted ones. On the other hand, the occurrence of a 

 Philippine form of restricted habitat on Obi Major is most remarkable. It cannot 

 easily be supposed that an inhabitant of a tropical island like Panay migrates to the 

 Moluccas, but I cannot at present classify our two Obi examples with anything else 

 than the tyjiical Stoparola panayensis (Sharpe). 



43. Graucalus papuensis melanolora (Gray). 



[Gorvus jjapuensls Gmeliu, Sysl. A'al. i. [i. 371 (1788, ex Daubentou, habitat 

 in Nova Guinea).] 



Gampephar/a melanolora Gray, P. Z. S. ISfiO. p. 353 (Batjan and Ternate). 



Evidently not very rare on Obi Major, where Doherly obtained a series of five 

 examples. Bernstein found it already on Obi. I find that — as already mentioned 

 by Salvadori in Orn. Fapj. ii. p. 135 — specimens from the Halmahera group and Obi 

 are smaller than typical New Guinea birds, and therefore prefer to make use of Gray's 

 name melanolora, for the former. The following mea.surements of the wings will be 

 of interest : — 



Halmahera: 159, 159, 157, 157, 157, 155, 148 mm. 



afmi'l they cannrpf be oalled Acanthopimutr, as tbc type of Aoanthiipnevstf is horealis, .1 true PJti/Unscnpvs, 

 in my opinion. I refrain frum creating a new genus for these birds, and call them now again (pro- 

 visionally) ('Typtiilopha. In Dr. Sharpe's irandlhf iii. p. L'7."i, I', pn.iln/ti,'! and nvrrtti are not mentioned, 

 proljably because recorded as Acaiithopnemie, 



