(47 ) 



the siiecific name of onr bird. In that case tlie name MiMCflii/.^ osnulnns (Gonld) 

 wonld have to be accepted). 



Bernstein obtained this bird on Batjan, and the specimen is in the Leyden 

 Mnsenm. Probably not resident, but only a strags^ler to the Moluccan Islands. 



2.5. Surniculus musschenbroeki Mey. 



Siiriiiadun iiwssclunhrothi A. B. Meyer, Rowley's Orii. MhcdL iii. p. 164 (1878 : Batjan). 



Dr. Meyer received this species direct from Batjan. It was also obtained 

 there by Platen and Kiikenthal, bnt neither Doherty nor AVaterstradt fonnd it. 



26. Eudynamis honorata subsj). ? 



Bernstein collected specimens of an Eudynamis on Batjan and Halmahera. 

 Salvadori refers these with some doubt to E. orientalis ; Shelley refers a young 

 bird from Halmahera to E. orientalis. Dr. Finsch (i\^i9fc.s Leijden ^flls. xxii. p. 103) 

 refers the specimens from Batjan and Halmahera to E. honoiata. As this ornitho- 

 logist, however, docs not separate E. honorata honorata, E. honorata malayana, 

 and E. honorata minclanensis, and I have not been able to examine an adult 

 individual from the North Moluccas, I do not know to which form they belong, 

 Imt expect them to bo separable as a new subspecies. 



27. Scythrops novaehollandiae Lath. 

 Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Platen, Vorderman, Waterstradt. 



28. Centropus goliath Bp. 



Centrnims gnlinth Bonaparte, C'lnixp. Ai\ i. p. 108 (1K50 : Halmahera, ex Forsten MS. in Mus. 

 Lugd.). 



Batjan : "Wallace, Bernstein, Beccari, Guillemard, Vorderman, Platen, 

 Kiikenthal, Doherty, Waterstradt. 



"Iris very deej) brown (<??), bill and feet black." (AV\ Doherty.) 

 (Dumas obtained ( '. ijolinth also on Morty.) 



2U. Centropus javanicus (Dumont). 



l*>atjan : Bernstein, Platen, Kiikenthal ; Doherty, S ad., August 1897. 

 (Dumas obtained a young bird on Morty Island.) 



:!ii. Rhyticeros plicatus (Penn.). 



Batjan : Wallace, Beccari, Guillemard, Platen, Kiikenthal, Vorderman, 

 Doherty. 



31. Merops ornatus Lath. 



Batjan : Finsch, Kiikenthal, Doherty (frequent in August 1897), \V'aterstradt 

 (August 1902). 



In all the specimens before me from Batjan the black throat patch is largely 

 developed, the bills are not at all longer than in Australian specimens, nor is there 

 any other difference. 



