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1 <?, 1 ? (not sexed), Key Islands, 6. 16. i. 1896. (C. Webster coll.) 



1 c? (not sexed), raouhing from the juvenile cinnamon buff plumage to the 



black of the adult bird. Key, 17. i. 1896. C. Webster coll. 



1 c? ad., Soa, Little Key group, 11. vii. 1898. (H. Kiihn coll.. No. 817.) 



1 c? ad., Elat, Great Key group, 22. ix. 1897. (H. Kiihn coll.) 



1 c? ad., Taam Island, 23. vii. 1899. (H. Kuhn coll., No. 1362.) 



1 " S " (? (? juv.), 2 c? juv. (moulting from the juv. cinnamou-bnfF to the black 



plumage), 3 c? ad. (entirely black), Teoor, Octolier 1899. (H. Kiihn coll., Nos. 1468, 



1472, 1479, 1490, 1542, 1554.) 



1 " (?," Kisoei, 3. iii. 1900. (H. Kiihn coll., No. 2113.) In moult: moulting 



underneath from the creamy white first (nestling) plnmage to a rich cinnamon-buff 



one, above from a barred cinnamon-buff one to a black one with whitish buff 



spots (? ? !). 



1 ? ad., Gorom, Manawoka group, 11. xi. 1899. (H. Kiihn coll.. No. 1654.) 



80. Eudynamis orientalis orientalis (L.). 



1 " ? ," Kisoei Island, 3. iii. 1900. "Iris scarlet, feet bright plumbeous, bill 

 greenish white." A very typical, huge oi-ientalis. Probably a stray bird from the 

 Southern Moluccas (Ceram), while the real form of the South-East Islands is 

 E. 0. ecerctti. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS EUDYNAMIS. 



The various forms of the genus Eudtpiamis are doubtless very difficult to 

 understand. Though there is clearly no difficulty about those inhabiting India, 

 the Malayan Islands and the Philippines, inasmuch as it is admitted that only 

 one form occnjjies each area, the conclusions about the distribution in New Guinea, 

 the Moluccas, etc., are not always ipiite the same, (iount Salvadori * has 

 E. orientalis on the Moluccas, to the Key Islands, E. ci/anocephala in Australia, 

 S.E. New Guinea, E. nijimntev in (Dutch) New Guinea, Batanta, Mysol. Shelley t 

 distributes E. orientalis over the Moluccas, E. ci/anocephala from Australia and 

 New Guinea to Timor, E. rufiventer over New Guinea and the Papuan Islands. 

 Finsch I says " E. honorata : India to the Eastern Moluccas (Halmahera, 

 Ternate, Tidore, Mare, Motir, Batjan). E. rufiventer : New Guinea, Salwatty, 

 Bismarck-Archipelago. E. ci/anocephala : Australia, S.E. New Guinea, Timor, 

 Wetter, Alor, Aru, Key, Goram, Banda, Amboina. E. orientalis : Burn, Manipa, 

 Kelang, Amboina, Ceram." In the same year I acknowledged § : — 

 Eudynamis honorata honorata : India to China. 



„ „ malai/ana : Malay Archipelago. 



„ „ mindanensis : Phili[)pines to Sanghir. 



„ orientalis orientalis : Moluccan Islands only. 



„ „ rufiventer: New Guinea and some of the Papuan Islands, 



„ ,, salvadorii : New Britain and New Ireland. 



„ ct/anocephala cyanocephala : Australia (? to New Guinea). 



„ „ ereretti : Key Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands, and 



jjrohably parts of New Guinea. 



On, J'aji. i. pp. 359—370. 

 t Cat. II. llrit. Afun. xix. pp. 322 -32fi. 

 X ->■»//•» Lei/ilm Afimeiim xxii. ]ip. 100—112, lilOO. 

 § Ni)V. Zooi,. 1:100. pp. 2:il— 2:!L'. 



