( .-57 ) 



(We have also a specimen shot on Morty by Dumas. It agrees perfectly 

 with M. gilolensis, bnt is very small — wing only 97 mm. It is probably a 

 female.) 



73. Zosterops atriceps Gray. 



Znsterops africeiK G. R. Gray, P. Z. H. ISi'.O. p. li.'jd (Biitjan). 



Batjau : Wallace, Platen, Kilkenthal, Doherty, Waterstrailt, low country. 

 " Iris deep brown, feet pale leaden grey (flesh-colour, tinged with purplish), 

 bill black, basal half of lower mandible yellow " ( W. Doherty). 



74. Zosterops obstinatus Hart. 



ZosternjK nhxiiimtiis Hartert, Nov. Zo(ir>. 190(1. p. :i;jS (Batjan and Ternate, type from Batjan). 



This form is nearest to Z. buruensis, from which it difi'ers in the obviously 

 more greenish, less golden olive, colour of the npper surface and edges to the 

 quills, by the ear-coverts being green, of the same colour as the back, not darker 

 and not tinged with brown, by the smaller loral black spot, and generally smaller 

 dimensions. 



Wing 57 — 60, in one 02 mm. Evidently the larger examples are males. 

 The Burn birds have the wing from 58 (?) to 62 and 64 mm. (cJ). 



A larger series from Ternate must be studied to make sure that the Ternate 

 form is exactly the same as Z. obstinatus from Batjan. Z. obs/in'itus is a mountain 

 form. Doherty found it on Batjan 4000 ft. high, on Ternate from 3000 to 4000. 

 'W'aterstradt sent a large series from Batjan, obtained at elevations estimated to be 

 Ijetween 5000 and 7000 ft. 



75. Criniger chloris Finsch. 



Criniger rhhris Finsch, J. f. 0. 1867. pp. 12, .'iO (" Halmahera, typu.'!, auch auf Batjan und Morotai "). 



Batjan : Wallace, Bruijn, Kiikenthal, Platen, Vordermau, Doliert}', Water- 

 stradt. Specimens from Halmahera and Morty (Dumas coll.) cannot lie separated. 



76. Pitta rufiventris (Heine).* 



Coloburis riifivfniris Heine, ./. /. 0. 1859. p. iOti (loc. ignot. I substitute Batjan as the typical 

 haljitat). 



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



(^ount Berlepsch's notion {Ab/i. Si'i/c/,v/ib. (tcs. xxv. 2. p. 313) that examples 

 from Batjan had apparently a lighter red abdomen than Halmahera ones is not 

 in the least confirmed by our series, and can only have been conceived from 

 somewhat faded examples. 



77. Acrocephalus orientalis (Temm. & Schleg.) (Migrant !) 

 Batjan : Wallace. 



• Pr. Vorilerman (Niiliiiirh. Tijdsfhr. voor A'ederl. liulie Iviii. 2. p. 22r). 1898) mention.s having 

 received a sj)ccimen of Pitta ina.rima from Batjau. Though it is possible that a specimen may lly over 

 oci^asionally from the near Halmahera, we liave been infonuetl by various collectors that Pitta mfi,rima, 

 though common on Halmahera, does not oi't'ur on P.atjan, and we may therefore safely presume that 

 Trince Oesman, who sent some skins from Hat Jan to l>r. Vonlerniau after his d(;partnre from tli.at island, 

 added this htautiful y'(7/rt to the culleelion, but that it was brought over from Halmahera, and nut 

 actually shot on Batjan. 



