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is (lark groy, throat and aluloinpii palor, wliitisli grey. The frmfilr, anil apparently 

 also the immature male, is somewhat, but notmnch, paler above ; the under surface 

 is more uniform, pale grey with a rufescent wash ; throat, breast, and sides with 

 narrow deep ashy shaft-lines. Doherty described the iris as ileejj brown, the bill 

 and feet as black. 



Doherty sent ten specimens. Waterstradt, though the majority of his birds 

 were taken in the mountains, did not send this rare species. 



no. Cinnyris auriceps (Gray).* 



Necltirinla avfireps G. R. Gray, P. Z. N. 18(50. p. 348 ("Batchian and Ternato," in British 



Museum, typical locality Batjan). 

 Cinnyrh niornlnigis Shelley, JIfon. Nectar, p. 101. PI. :U. fig. 2 (1877 : Morty). 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Guillemard, Platen, Kiikenthal, Doherty (large 

 series), Waterstradt. 



Dumas sent typical C. anrice.ps from Morty. Shelley's ^'Cinni/ris morotensis " 

 does not represent a local subspecies, but only an aberration. If large series of 

 these birds are examined, variations like Shelley's " C. morotensis " from the 

 ordinary type will be frequently found. We have a specimen approaching it, others 

 are in the Tnrati collection, and, tiiough their locality is uncertain, there is no 

 reason to suppose that they are from Morty, since our Morty examples are not 

 distinguishable from those from Ternate and Batjan. Among C. proserpina anil 

 ('. chfistinae I find similar and almost more striking variations, and it is therefore 

 evident that C. morotensis is only referring to an aberrant C. auriceps. 



07. Cinnyris frenata (S. Miill.). 



Neiiiiriiiia fi-eiKila S. Miiller, Lund-rn Volkenkiinde p. 173 (1843 : W. coast of Xew Guinea). 



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

 (Dumas sent several specimens from Morty.) 



08. Dicaeum schistaceiceps Gray. 



Dicaeuiii si'liistaceiceps G. R. Gray, P. Z. .S. 1860. p. 349 (''Batchian and E. Gilolo "—typical 

 locality Batjan, type in British Museum). 



Batjan : Wallace, Doherty, Waterstradt, low country. 



(Mr. Dumas sent a pair from Morty. They are apjiarently duller, without so 

 much of a golden tinge on the rump, and also duller, less golden, on the flanks. 

 A larger series would probably show that the Morty birds are subspecilically 

 separable.; 



O'.t. Myzomela simplex Gray. 



Myzomrln i<liiijjh:r G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1800. p. 349 (Batjan, Gilolo : typ. loc. Batjan). 



Batjan : Wallace, Doherty, Waterstradt. No elevation is marked on Water- 

 stradt's labels, but Doherty got this species only at heights of 4O00 ft. The 

 female, though apparently not different in colour from the male, is very much 

 smaller. Males have the wing 04 — 00, females only 50—58 mm. long. 



Dumas sent a specimen, evidently a male, from Morty, which differs from our 

 series of ten .1/. .simplex from Batjan in having a darker, sooty-brown throat and 



* The alluKud occurrence on Waigiu (Ncliikorn, J. f. 0. 1885. p. HH) is due to an in.-idvcitoiit mistake, 

 Ct. Salvad., Jhif ISHli. p. 152. 



