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 (io. Edoliisoma melanotis (Gray). 



Cniipephngn mrhmlis G. R. Gray, F. Z. S. 1K60. p. 3.'j:5 (Batjan and E. Gilolo, Wallace coll. 

 Typical locality, Batjan, this being the first-named island). (Sharpe and Salvador!— cf. Cat. 

 B. iv. p. 353 ; Salvad., Oi-ii. Pri/i. ii. p. IM — have rejected the name inelruhills on account of 

 the existence of a Gniuailiix melimntix Gould, /'. Z. X. 1837. p. 143, which was afterwards, 

 by Gray, Gen. IS. i. p. "^83. placed in the genus Ciiiiij)r/ili<ii)ii. This unfortunate (jmiinihiK 

 nieliiiii'tis being a synonym of limiicnhis mehinujix Lath., and thus lielonging to a different 

 genus, G)'«"C"/«s, there is not the slightest reason to reject the name inehiiinlis for the 

 Ktliilii.'iomu of the northern Moluccas). 



Common : Wallace, Platen, Doherty, Waterstradt. c? ¥ : " Iris deep brown, 

 feet black, bill black, the latter more slaty in the Jemnle'' (W. Doherty). 



There is a great variation in the young birds, some on the under surface 

 monlting from a rufons-brown, others from a pale bnif colour, to the slaty dress 

 of the adult 9nale. A female from Mortj' (Dumas coll.) has rather wide black 

 cross-bars. 



C)\. Lalage aureus (Temm.). 



Cehhpfn/ris tiurnia Temm., PI. Col. .382 (1825 ; "Timor" — errore ! This species does not inhabit 

 Timor nor — cf. Miill, Land-en VoUceiil-miile p. 190 — Celebes ! Reinwardt has collected the 

 type, and it must have come from the Moluccas. I substitute as the original locality : Ternate). 



Batjan : Wallace, Platen, Doherty (large series). 



''>2. Artamus leucorhynchos (L.). 



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

 (Dumas sent it from Morty.) 



'i;5. Dicrurus atrocaeruleus Gray. 



Dirrurii.i alrocaerulnis G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860. p. 354 ("Batchian and E. Gilolo.' Typical 

 locality therefore : Batjan). 



Batjan : Wallace, Platen, Kiikenthal, Doherty, Waterstradt. 



Two Morty specimens, sex unknown, collected by Dumas, are considerably 

 smaller. If this is shown to be constant in a larger number of specimens, then the 

 Morty form must be separated as a new subsjjecies. 



64. Pachycephala mentalis Wall. 



Pwhtjcpplinht mnitalh Wallace, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 30 (Typical locality: Batjan). 



Common on Batjan : Wallace, Platen, Kitkenthal, Doherty (large series), 

 Waterstradt. 



0.5. Pachycephala cinerascens Salvad.* 



Paehiicephala cimmscens Salvadori, Ann. Mas. Cir. Gen. vii. 1878. p. 332 (Typical locality : 

 Temate). 



This interesting little Pachycephala, described from Ternate, and also known 

 from Tidorc and Morty, was fonud by Doherty plentiful on the hills (if Batjan, 

 from 2000 to 4000 ft. elevation. The adult is darker ashy above, the upper breast 



Dr. Guilleraard (/'. Z. S. ISSij. p. 571) mentions as coming from Batj.an a specimen of Ctdbirlnncln. 

 mei/ar/ii/ni'lia, Irat himself doubts the accuracy of the locality. There can be no doubt tliat a wrong label 

 got attached to that specimen, as in the case of a Graiwahis iiiagnirostris {riifc antea No. ."iS), and in that 

 of a Lueocorax piirrhopUrm in tlie Tring Museum, which is eiToncously labelled as having been collected 

 on Obi. (Cf. Salvadori, Ibia 1S8G. p. 154.) 



