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7. — Eudijnamis orientalis riifiventer (Less.). 



Cuculus ruficenter Lesson, Voy. Coi/ic, Zool. i. p. 623 (1828 : New 



Guinea. I accept as the typical locality Dorey). 



New Guinea and some of the adjacent islands (Salwatty, Batanta, BIysol, 



and probably Ara). All New Gninea specimens before me seem to belong to 



this form, and I am inclined to think that no others occnr in Papna, except 



perhaps in the S.E. (?). 



8. 



Exactly like E. o. riifivcntei-, bnt larger. The adnlt males are apparently 

 somewhat less greenish, more blnish. Wing of males abont 203 — 210 mm. 

 8. — Eudi/mtmis orientalis sahadorii Hart. 



Eudynamis orientalis salea.dorii Hartert, Nov. ZooL. 1900. p. 232 

 (Tyjie from New Ireland). 

 New Britain and New Ireland. 



The adult male of this form resembles entirely that of E. a. orientalis., but the 

 female is much more frequently spotted above, the under surface is lighter. 



9. 

 Bill of the male black, thus distinguished from all the other forms. 

 9. — Eudynamis orientalis melanorhyncha S. Miill. 



Eudynamis melanorhyncha S. Miiller, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. hid., Land-en 

 Volkenk. p. 176 (1839-44 : Celebes). 

 Inhabits Celebes and (according to Meyer and Wiglesworth) Peling (between 

 Celebes and Sula). 



10. 



Exactly like E. o. melanorhyncha, but differs at a glance by its smaller siae, 

 and the males mostly by white markings on the chin and forehead, as shown by 

 me in Nov. Zool. 1898. p. 127. 



10. — Eudynamis orientalis facialis Wall. 



Eudynamis facialis, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1862. p. 339 (Sula). 



Inhabits the Sula Islands, east of Celebes. 



I am sure that some of my ornithological friends will not agree with the 

 present arrangement, bnt I predict that it will be the arrangement of the future, 

 being much more natural than any other hitherto attempted. There are probably 

 one or two errors in it, bnt they will then be corrected, and there are perhaps 

 even still more forms that are sei)arable — for example, a series from the Andamans 

 should be compared with typical honoratus — but completeness cannot easily be 

 reached at present, and we must be content to conclude as far as our material 

 reaches at the time. 



81. Cuculus sataratus Blyth. 



" ? " ad., Teoor, 2. xi. 1899. (H. Kiihn coll.. No. 1478.) 



S ? . juv., Toeal, Little Key Islands, October and March. (Nos. 247, 585.) 



82. Scythrops novaehoUandiae. 

 Toeal, Little Key Islands. 



