( 2.52 ) 



XXXII. MOTACILLIDAE. 



131. Motacilla flava L. 



4 (?, 1 ?, Titindoe, December 1900. 



1 (?, Teoor, October 189U. (No. 1553.) 



3 <?c?, 2 ? ?, Maar I., Ceram-lant, December 1809. (Nos. 1720, 1739—1742.') 

 (Migrant from the iiortb.) 



132. Motacilla boarula melanope Pall. 



5 ?, Teoor Island, October ls09. (No.s. 149(i, 1549.) 

 (Migrant from tbe north.) 



XXXIII. PLOCEIDAE. 

 133. Munia molucca (L.) 



Loxia molucca Linn., .%s/. Nal. ed. xii. 1700. p. 302 (ex Brisson, Moluccas). 



Toeal, Little Key, common. (Nos. 235, 260, 279, 322, 381.) 

 S, Eer Island, Little Key gronp, 14. xii. 1900. 

 3, Heuiar Island, Tiandn group, 17. vii. 1899. (No. 1282.) 



2 ad., 1 jnv., Kilsoein, Koer gronp, June— Jnly 1899. (Nos. 1202, 1225, 

 1281.) 



3 ad., Kisoei, March 1900. (Nos. 2o09— 2071.) 

 2 juv., Taam, July 1899. (Nos. 1300, 1368.) 



(?, Goram, Manawoka group, 15. xi. 1899. (No. 1601.) 

 ?, Maar, Ceram-lant group, 13. xii. 1899. (No. 1709.) 



RALLIDAE (See Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 96). 

 Add:— 



134. Porphyrio melanotus Temm. (?subsp.). 



"?" (apparently not fully adnlt), Matabolat, Great Key, 9. ix. 1898. "Iris 

 bright brown, feet dirty red with black joints, bill vermilion." (Kiihn coll., 

 No. 836.) 



This specimen, compared with our series, is extremely small, especially the 

 bill, legs and feet, though the wing is not appreciably smaller. See Dr. Sharpe's 

 notes on p. 206, Cat. D. xxiii., about the probable existence of a small (northern) 

 race. 



XXXIV. ARDEIDAE. 

 135. Nycticorax caledonica (Gm.) 



Ardea cahdnnim Gmelin, Sijst. Nat. i. p. G2G (1788: ex Latham, New Caledonia! Specimens 

 from INew Caledonia should be compared ! f) 



4 ad., Toeal. (Kiihn coll., Nos. 499, 527, 619, 798.) 



1 juv. in first plumage, Toeal, 28. viii. 1898. (No. 1390.) 

 ? ad., Kilsoein, Koer, July 1899. (No. 1301.) 



<? ad., Manggoer, September 1899. (No. 1448.) 



? ad., Teoor, October 1899. " Iris chromeous, feet pale sulphureous, bill 

 black, under mandible greenish yellow." (No. 1584.) 



2 S ad., Taam, July— Augnst 1899. (Nos. 1383, 1385.) 



