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Specimen C closely resembles B, but has a dull white bar, 

 apparentl}' abnormal, across one of the rectrices. 



D is like A, but the plumage is scarcely so dark, and on 

 the under surface is slightly mingled with rufous. 



In this specimen the feathei's on the crown of the head 

 exhibit two pairs of pale brown spots on each feather, and 

 the feathers of the throat are a rich brown, transversely barred 

 with a darker brown. 



E resembles D, but has the brown of the mantle, including 

 the wing-coverts, and also of the entire under surface, some- 

 what mingled with rufous. 



In this specimen the feathers immediately adjacent to the 

 upper mandible are white, and the black band which edges 

 the lower portion of the disk is very conspicuous. 



The general aspect of the Anjouan Scops is decidedly fuli- 

 ginous, a circumstance which leads me to propose for it the 

 specific title of capnodes, from the Greek Kairvoihr]'^ , smoky ; 

 and I think that Scops capnodes may be safely admitted as a 

 valid addition to the catalogue of the Strisres. 



X. — On Scolopax rosenbergi and S. saturata. 

 By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



When I was preparing my ' Ornitologia della Papuasia e 

 delle Molucche,' wishing to be as exact as possible, I visited 

 the principal museums of Europe, in order to examine the 

 existing types of the species included by me in the above- 

 mentioned work. Thus, when in Leyden, I examined the 

 type specimen of Scolopax rosenbergi, Schleg., from New 

 Guinea, and compared it very carefully with two specimens 

 of the allied Javan species, Scolopax saturata, Horsf. I 

 must say that, although I perceived, as it had occurred also 

 to Schlegel, that the two species were nearly related, 

 still it never came into my head that they were specifically 

 identical. 



Again, when Mv. Laglaize sent to Count Turati, of Milan, 

 a sppcimeu of S. rosenbergi collected by Bruijn's hunters on 



