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14. Centropus javauicus (Dumont). 

 A good series from Kalidupa. The very much larger size of the females is well 

 shown by this series. Ct'ulrojnis hnu/nJoisis (from India alone) is di.stinguishahle 

 by its rufou.s-red mantle, which is sharply separated from the blue-black neck. If 

 the two forms strictly represent each other geograi)hically, they should be treated 

 subspecifically. (Cf. Nov. ZoOL. 1900. pp. 2:52. 233.) Moulting specimens show of 

 course that the change from the juvenile iilumage to that of the adult is effected by 

 moult, and not by "colour-change" within the feathers. (Nos. 4490—4498.) 



15. Pyrrhocentor celebensis rufescens JNIey. & Wigl. 

 Two specimens, male and fenuih' (Xos. 4101 and 4165), from S.W. Buton, 

 Celebes, agree with P. c. rit/escens, if that is a well-marked subspecies, and not with 

 typical celebensis from North Celebes. (CL Mey. it Wigl., B. of Celebes i. p. 223; 

 Hart., Nov. ZooL. 1897. pp. IGO. Ifi4.) 



1(5. Phoenicophaus calorhynchus rufiloris subsp. no v. 



Ph. Ph. calorhynchus calorhynchus et Ph. calorhynchus meridionalis dietis 

 simillimus, sed loris cinnaniomeo-rufis distinguendus. 



Hab. Ruton. c^?, 25 xi. 1901. "Iris scarlet, feet black, bill sulphur-j'ellow, 

 tip blackish for about 1 em. with utmost point white for 2 or 3 mm., sides of base 

 (round nostril) and under mandible dark scarlet." (Nos. 41C2, 4163, H. Kiihn coll.) 



These two specimens closely resemble the northern tyjiical Ph. calorhynchus 

 and its southern very close representative Ph. calorhynchus meridionalis. The 

 feathers of the crown are somewhat worn, and it is therefore difficult to say to which 

 of the two forms they are nearer in the colour of the crown. The mantle and breast, 

 which are generally lighter in Ph. c. meridionalis, are very rich cinnamon-chestnut- 

 rufou~. The wings are rather short, measuring only 172 — 174 mm., but they are 

 partly moulting. 



The majority of Ph. calorhynchus calorhynchus and all Ph. calm-hynchus 

 tneridionalis in the Tring Museum are larger, having wings from 180 — 185 mm. 

 and more, but several Pli. calorhynchus calorhynchus ha\e wings only 174 — 178 mm. 

 long. Messrs. Meyer it Wiglesworth quote for the northern form wings 174 — 185, 

 for the southern (generally larger) form 174 — 202. 



The bills of the two Buton examples are also smaller than in most examples of 

 the two other forms, but here, too, we find several specimens closely approaching and 

 jiractically equalling them. Altogether neither the mearurements nor differences of 

 colour (only two specimens being to hand) are of any importance, except that the 

 Buton birds have on the lores a large cinnamon-rufous patch, almost of the same 

 colour as the throat, though a shade duller. The discovery of this form, though 

 clo.sely allied (but better distinguished, I think, than meridionalis), is of great 

 interest. 



Type: No. 4163, c?, S.W. Buton. 25. xi. 1901, H. Kiihn leg., in Mus. 

 Rothschild. 



17. Scythrops novaehollandiae Lath. 

 Kalidupa, Tomia, Binongka, Wantjee. '■ Iris scarlet, lores and eyelid (naked 

 skin round eye) crimson, feet bright grey (bright plumbeous), liill dark grey, dirty 

 whitish towards tip, but varying." Nos. 4348, 4349, 4457, 4470, 4471, Kiihn coll.) 



