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1 cJ juv., Koemaflan, Little Key o;ronp, 9. iv. 1898. (No. 647.) 



2 c? ad., Kilsoeiii, Koer groii]i, June-July 1899. (No.s. 1208, 12SU.) 

 1 ? ad.,Taam Island, 28. vii. 1899. (No. 1327.) 



Ch. crassirostris i.« a rare bird in collections, and not always correctly described. 

 The adult male vmA female (if correctly sexed) is above of a deep beantifnl steel- 

 blue to a dark metallic bronzy green. These blue and green birds are the same, as 

 distinctly shown by some partially blue and green ones. A large white patch on 

 the wing. Underside white, only on the thighs and flanks witli a few bars. These 

 bars arc ajiparently not more, but rather less, developed in the oldest birds. The 

 lateral rectrices with the onter web almost quite white, inner web white with the 

 base widely and two very broad bars steel bine, or greenish blue. The other 

 jiairs without a trace of rufous in the old birds. The young bird in first full 

 ]jlumage is above uniform pale cinnamon, below white with or without a few faint 

 bars. Tail above, pale cinnamon like the back. Between these two plumages is 

 evidently an intermediate one which is above metallic bronzy greenish, below 

 white with brown bars, though (if we accept that No. 539 is wrongly sexed) these 

 might just a-i well be the ViiiwM females, both our sjiecimens in this plumage 

 (Nos. 49 and isl) being marked " ? " ; both have rufous cinnamon edges to the 

 upper wing-coverts. 



88. Chalcococcyx poecilurus (Gray). 



Chnjsococrjix iioeriliini.<,G. R.. Gray, Prur. Znnl. S'ir. London ISl'il. pp. 4.^1,437 (Mjsol and New 

 Guinea : tjjpe from Mysol, in the Brit. Mus.). 



1 ? imm.. Add, north of Great Key, 1. viii. 19U0. (H. Kiihn coll., No. 2788.) 



This s]iec.imen has cer(ainly nothing to do with C. crassirostris, and I have 



no doubt belongs to C. poecilKrus, though it would be desirable to examine adult 



examples. The wing is longer, the bill smaller, the markings in tlie tail difi'erent 



from those of <'. crassirostris, and the upperside is pale greenish. 



XV. CORAGIIDAE. 



89. Eurystomus orientalis australis Swains. 



Toeal, Little Key, April and September. 6 juv. in first plumage, 18. iv. 1898. 

 (No. 746.) 



Gorom, Mauawoka, 12. xi. I,s99. (No. 1648.) 

 Teoor, 20. x. 1899. (No. 1450.) 



XVI. CAPRIMULGIDAE. 

 9(1. Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus Hursf. 



Common at Toeal, Little Key. 



1 S, Maar I., Ceram-laut group, 15. xii. 1899. (Kiihu coll., No. 1684.) 



XVn. UYPSELIDAE. 

 91. CoUocalia fuciphaga (Thunb.). 



4 Toea), April 1898. (H. Kiihn coll., Nos. 752, 753, 771, 772.) 



2 Ohoitil, Little Key, February 1898. (Kiihn coll., Nos. 571, 572.) 



5 Kilsoein, Koer group, June— July 1899. (Kiihn coll., Nos. 1222, 1226, 1227, 

 1257, 1285.) 



