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8, Teoor, October— November 1899. (Nos. 1451, 1460, 1489, 1528, 1529, 1533, 

 1535, 1543.) 



cJ, Manggoer, 0. x. 18U9. (No. 1439.) 



2c??, Goram, Mauawoka group. (Nos. 1024, 1640, 1653.) 



2 cJc?, Maar, Ceram-laut, December 1899. (Nos. 16s5, 1687.) 



108. Edoliisoma amboinensis (Hartl). 



CampcpJiagti ainhniwnsis Hartlaub, Jnuni. f. Oni. 18G5. p. 153 (Amboina : Forsten coll. in Mus. 

 Lugd.). 



$ juv., in monlt, Maar Island, Ceram-laut group, 11. xii. 1899. 

 " Iris greyish-brown, bill and feet blaclf." (No. 1680.) 



1 have no doubt that this specimen, although in that stage of plumage it is 

 most difficult to determine, belongs to E. amboinensis, which is known to inhabit 

 Amboina and Ceram, but certainly not Mysol, as erroneously stated in the Catalogue 

 of Birds, Yol IV. 



109. Lalage karu polygrammica (Gray). 



[Cehlepyris karu Lesson, Voij. Coqu. Zool. i. p. G.S3 (1828 : New Ireland).] 

 Campephaga jiolygrammica Gray, P. Z. S. 1858. p. 179 (Aru). 



2 c?c?, 2 ? ?, Toeal, on Little Key, August, September, October. (H. Kiihn 

 coll., Nos. 67, 163, 163a, 163b.) 



c? ? , Add, north of Great Key, July— August 1900. (Nos. 2781, 2782.) 

 I have provisionally adojited the above nomenclature for the Key Island form. 

 It certainly differs from the typical karu of New Ireland and New Britain in its 

 darker, more clouded, and more strongly barred underside. It seems to me that 

 birds from New Guinea, the Aru and Key Islands are similar, although our material 

 from Aru is scanty, and there may be even more forms. I have not adoi)ted Gray's 

 name rujiecntris, based on the Echcnillcur a ventre roux of Hombron and 

 Jacquinot, from Raffles Bay, North Australia, because I doubt that any Australian 

 birds must be united with L. karu karu. 

 Cf. Nov Zool. 1898. p. 523. 



XXI. ORIOLIDAE. 

 IIU. Sphecotheres flaviventris Gould. 



Sjihecotheresflavhrntris Gould, P. Z. S. 18-I'J. p. Ill (.\ubtralia, ti/p. he. Cape York). 



Toeal, on Little Key, Elat, on Great Key, Add, north of Great Key, July, 

 September, October. <? ad., " Iris brown (dark coffee-brown), bill black, feet pale 

 flesh-colour ; " ?, " Iris brown, bill l)rownish (brown), feet black (blackish)." 



There seems to be no dift'ereuce between (typical) t^ueensland and Key birds. 

 Key Islands, Kiihu, Wekster coll. (Kuhn coll., Nos. 54, 108, 180,21.5, 217,245, 

 2785, 2780; Webster coll., Nos. 5, 74.) 



(The absence of i'orddae on the islands is most peculiar. The genus Cracticns, 

 thongh common on the Am Islands, has not extended its range to the Key group.) 



