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83. Hartert on the Birds of the Obi Group, Moluccas. 



[The Birds of the Obi Group, Central Moluccas. By Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. x. p. 1 (1903).] 



The Obi Islands lie in the middle of the Moluccan Archi- 

 pelago, between Halmahera and Ceram, and consist of one 

 larger islet and several that are smaller. They have been 

 visited by Bernstein, Guilleruard, Doherty, Lucas (of Brussels), 

 and recently by Waterstradt, who managed to ascend the hills 

 of the interior. Mr. Hartert now gives ns the first complete 

 list of the birds of this group, based mainly on the rich 

 series at Tring. He enumerates 85 species, and adds in- 

 structive notes. The following are now described as new : — 

 Astur griseogularis obiensis, Cryptolopha everetti waterstradti, 

 Pachycephalia johni, and Criniger lucasi. Besides these and 

 other species restricted to the locality, Obi Major is (or 

 was until quite lately) the only certainly ascertained home 

 of the rare Woodcock Neoscolopax rochusseni. 



81. Hartert on, the Birds of the Tukong-Besi Islands and 

 Buton. 



[Ou the Birds collected on the Tukong-Besi Islands .'ind Buton, South- 

 east of Celebes, by Mr. Heinrich Kiihn. By E. Hartert. Nov. Zool. x. 

 p. 18.] 



The Tukong-Besi Islands form an extensive but almost 

 unknown archipelago east of Buton, and had never been 

 visited by a zoological collector till Mr. Kiihn went there in 

 December 1901 and January 1902. Buton also is nearly 

 unknown ornithologically. Altogether Mr. Kiihn's col- 

 lection contains examples of 73 species, of which 9 or 10 

 are migrants from the north and the rest are residents. 

 Generally the ornis of these islands is predominantly Cele- 

 besian, but the following forms are described as peculiar : — 

 Pisorhina manadensis ka/idapa, Tanygnathus megalorhynchus 

 viridipennis, Phoenicopha'es calorhynchus rufiloris } Dicceum 

 kuehni, Cinnyris infrenata, Zosterops flavissima, Oriolus 

 broderipi oscillans, Ptilinopus melanocephalus aurescentior, 

 and Hypotd'nidia kuehni. 



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