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This is a somewhat rare bird, but still more remarkable is perhaps Gazzola 

 unicolor Kothsch. & Hart. {Ball. B. 0. 0. xi. p 29, November 1900), which is exactly 

 like G. typica iu form and dimensions, but uniform black, with a fine purplish blue 

 gloss above, while the hindneck and underside are dull slaty-black. Two skins in 

 the Tring Museum from a native-made collection from Bauggai, containing, among 

 others, Basikomia galmhis and Pitta dohertt/i, are apparently the only ones known 

 at present. 



46. Corvus enca (Horsf.). 



Freffilits enca Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 164 (1820 : Java). 



ic?, 1 ?, Baton, November 1901. (Nos. 4159, 4174—4176.) 

 3 c?c?, 3 ? ?, Binongka, December 1901. (Nos. 4178—4183.) 



1 cJ, 2 S ?, Tomia, December 1901. (Nos. 4350-4352.) 



3 c?<?, 3 ? ?, Kalidupa, January 1902. (Nos. 4472—4477.) 



'"Iris dark sepia-brown (cofifee-browu or blackish brown), bill and feet black." 



47. Oriolus broderipi oscillans subsp. nov. 



A large series of Orioles from Kalidupa (Nos. 4461 — 4467, 5 cJ, 2 ?, January 

 1902), Binongka (Nos. 4194—4205, 9 (?, 3 ¥, December 1901), Tomia (Nos. 4377— 

 4383, 5 c?, 2 ?. December 1901), Wantjee (Nos. 4438, 4439, 4401—4403, 3 (J, 2 ?, 

 December 1901), are difficult to distinguish fi-om Oriolus honerateiisis j\ley. & Wigl., 

 from Bonerate, Kalao, and Djampea, while single specimens of 0. broderipi are also 

 hardly distinguishable. Oriolus boneratensis is a large fonn of 0. broderipi. The 

 three subspecies can be sejiarated as follows : 



1. 0. brodei-ipi broderipi Bp. (P. Z. S. 1850. p. 279, PL X^'III., ex ins. 

 Sambawa) : Smaller, bill comparatively more elongate, being less high and stout, 

 inner webs of remiges black, without whitish edges ; yellow tips to secondaries wider. 

 Lesser Sunda Islands, from Lombok and Sumbawa to Sumba, Flores, Alor, Pantar, 

 and Lomblen. (Specimens from Alor, Pantar, and Lomblen are usually bigger, and 

 closely approach 0. b. oscillans. but there are no whitish edges to tlie inner webs of 

 the remiges.) 



2. 0. broderipi oscillans subsp. nov. : Generally a little larger, bill stronger, 

 inner webs of remiges with more or less wide but always conspicuous whitish edges ; 

 yellow tips to secondaries narrow, sometimes obsolete. Tukang-Besi Islands, S.E. of 

 Celebes. The iris is described as purple (dark i^urple, blood-red, dark blood-red), 

 feet as plumbeous grey, bill as pinkish flesh-colour. (The whitish edges are never 

 absent, though ranging in width. In 0. broderipi broderipi they are entirely absent 

 or only very narrowly indicated.) 



Type (J, No. 4201, Binongka, 12. xii. 1901, Kiihn leg., in Mus. Tring. 



3. 0. bi'oderipi buneratensis Mey. & Wigl. (Abh. Mii-s. Dresden, 1896, No. 1, 

 p. 16; Hart., Nov. Zool. 1890. p. I(i9; IMey. & Wigl., B. Celebes p. 589). Like 

 0. b. oscilla'ns, but with a stouter and liigher bill, the distance from the cutting 

 edge to the top of the culnien of the upper bill being 1 to 2 mm. more ; wings 

 generally a little longer ; whitish edges to the inner webs of the remiges and yellow 

 tips to secondaries as in 0. b. oscillans. Islands of Bonerate, Kalao, and Djampea, 

 south of Celebes. 



It is of little avail to give detailed measurements, as such differences as exist 



