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Very large form. ? with fewer, larger, rufous cinnamon spots above, bars 

 on wings and tail never very narrow, underside cinnamon, with narrow, few 

 and often hardly any bars, head apparently never uniform black. Nestling 

 cinnamon-buff, c? ad., wing about 213—220 mm. 

 4. — Eudynamis orientalis orientalin (L.). 



Cuculus orientalis Linn., St/st. Nat. ed. xii. 1706. p. 168 (ex Brisson : 



India oriental. ! I accept Amboina as the tyjncal locality. I am 



not desirous to change this name, but it seems to me somewhat 



hazardous to accept Linnaeus' name for the Moluccan Eudijnamis, 



although Brisson's figure and description agree perhaps better with 



it than with any other form of the genus). 



Southern Moluccas only : Burn, Manipa, Kelang, Amboina, Ceram, and a 



specimen from Kisoci, Watoebela group, South-East Islands, in the Tring Museum, 



the latter probably a stray bird. I do not think that it occurs on the Key Islands, 



nor is the locality Lombok {British Mus. Cat. xix. p. 323) correct. 



5. 



? ad. Crown of head uniform black or very little spotted with rufous, chin 

 and upper throat black, or very little streaked, on the sides of the black throat 

 a buff moustachial line ; rufous bars on tail and wings much narrower and paler ; 

 upper surface with numerous small whitish or pale buff roundish spots. Wing 

 of ad. i about 200 — 215 mm. Nestling cinnamon-buff. 

 5. — Eudynamia orientalis everetti Hart. 



Eudynamis cyandcepkala everetti Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900. p. 231 

 (Sumba, type locality, Timor, Alor, Wetter, Moa, Key and South- 

 East Islands. This distribution is a strange one, but I cannot 

 separate specimens from these various jjlaces, and through Wetter 

 and Moa a partial bridge is laid from the Lesser Suuda Islands to 

 the Key group. Dr. Finsch, by stating cyanocephala to occur on 

 Key, Wetter, Alor, entirely confirms my view. The young birds 

 have the cinnamon-rufous bars on wings and tail as wide as in 

 E. 0. orientalis, and are easily mistaken for the latter, but are 

 smaller). 



Perfectly like E. o. everetti, only larger. S wing 216 — 222 mm. at least, 

 fi. — Eudynamis orientalis cyanoccplialus (Lath.). 



Cuculus cyanocephalus Latham, Ivd. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. 30 (1801 : 

 Australia). 

 Australia, and perhaps Southern New Guinea. 



7. 

 Very small form. Chin and upper throat of ? ad. streaked black and 

 rufous. Wing of c? about 185 — 196 mm. ? apparently always very rufous 

 spotted, the spots not so large as and more numerous than in E. o. orientalis, but 

 of the same colour. 



