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76. Cerchneis moluccensis (Jatq. & Pncb.). 



This widely spread species does not extend its area down to the Key Ishmds, 

 bnt it occnrs on the northern South-East Islands, where it was already, many years 

 ago, fonnd on Gorom by Hosenberg and AVallace. Mr. KCibn sent the following 

 specimens : — 



?, Gorom, Manawoka, 14. xi. 1899. (No. 1(3.55.) 



?, Maar Island, Ceram-lant group, 16. xii. 1899. (No. 1753.) 



?, Ondor, (ioram-lant Ishmds, 1. iii. 1900. (No. 2177.) 



77. Falco lunulatus Lath. 



? jnv., Toeal, Key Islands, 5. viii. Is98. 



" Iris'bright yellow, feet ochreons, bill ash-grey." (Kiihn coll.. No. 839.) 

 This species is apparently only a migrant or straggler to the Molnceas and 

 Snnda Islands, where it has occurred at Geram, Ternate and Amboina, Timor 

 (Everett coll.) and Flores, and to the Key Islands. This example obtained by 

 Kiihn is apparently the only one known from the Key Islands. 



(We have received no owls from any of these islands. Salvadori's Ornitologia 

 delta Papuasia e delle Molucclic mentions also not a single species of owls from the 

 Key and S.E. Islands). 



XIV. CUGULI. 

 78. Centropus spilopterus Gray. 



Centrojiiis gpiUqAeriix G. R. Gray, Pror. Zuol. Soi: 1858. p. 184 (Key Is.). 



One nestling from Noekoe Roa, Little Key group, 7. vii. 1900. 



Evidently not rare near Toeal, Little Key. The iris of the adult birds is 

 vermilion or scarlet, that of the young brown. The young are above widely, though 

 not very frequently, barred with whitish isabelline. The adult birds have sometimes 

 (while otherwise being uniform metallic greenish black) barred remiges, but some- 

 times quite uniform blackish ones. The latter ones are apparently tlie oldest birds. 

 The/emale is considerably larger than the 7riale. 



The chalky white egg measures 36 x 26-7 mm. 



79. Eudynamis orientalis everetti Hart. 



Eudytiamh ctjaiiocephiila crerelt'i Havtert, Niiv. Zckii.. 191)0. p. 2.31 (Sumbato Key, etc. ; type Sumba). 



1 (supposed ? ad., not sexed), Key Island, 6. i. 1896. (C. Webster coll., 

 No. 14.) 



1 " J'," nearly adult, but with a few jiale rufous feathers of the juvenile 

 plumage still visible underneath, Ohimas, Little Key Islands, 5. iv. 1898. (H. Kiihn 

 coll.. No. 723.) The remains of the jnvenile plumage seem pale, therefore I am 

 inclined to |ilaci' the bird with ei-firetfi, though dtubtfnll}'. 



1 " J," Soa, Little Key group, 7. iv. 1898. " Iris vermilion.'" (H. Kiihn coll.. 

 No. 716.) Underside pale cinnamon, crown and hindneck nearly uniform glossy 

 black : npperside with small, mostly white or whitish spots (? ? or c? juv.). 



1 " ?," Add, north of Great Key, 1. viii. 1900. ''Iris scarlet." (H. Kiihn 

 coll.. No. 2803.) Underside white, head and upperside as that of No. 716. 



2 i ad., Add, 8. 30. vii. 19(J0. (H. Kiihn coll., Nos. 2800, 2802.) 



