876 Mr. C. W. Andrews on the Skull, 



a single female only, from Arfak. It is represented now on 

 Plate VII., and I am again much obliged to Dr. Gestro for 

 giving me the opportunity of figuring the type in ' The Ibis.' 

 Then there are ^. bennetti^ Salvad., and M. ivallacei, Gray, 

 both known from a number of specimens, and lastly ^. plumi- 

 fera, Rams. In the original description this species was 

 compared with ^. bennetti, but it seems much more closely 

 allied to ^. rufescens, or less probably ^. salvadorii. 

 Salvadori has also described an jE. loria (Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xxix. p. 564), which I kept separate in the 'Cata- 

 logue of Birds,' xvi. p. 650. Dr. Gestro has now lent me 

 the type, and I am sorry to say I cannot distinguish it in 

 any way from the darker specimens of jE. bennetti in the 

 British Museum, though in the original description it has 

 only been compared with ^. wallacei, which is, of course, 

 different. 



P.S. May 12th. — During my recent visit to Paris, Dr. 

 Oustalet kindly showed me his series of Collocalia gerrnani, 

 described in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1876, p. 1-3, and I 

 found them to be the same as the form named C. mergidensis 

 (subspecies of C. francica) in the Cat. of Birds. Of course 

 Oustalet's name has the priority by a long way. I also saw 

 Chatura cochinchineyisis of Oustalet. It is a very small form 

 of Ch(Etura caudacuta nudipes, having the tail square, and is 

 not at all related to C. gigantea. Dr. Biittikofer has also 

 kindly sent me a sketch of the tail of his C. klaesii, which 

 is square. It is evidently the same bird. The species 

 probably breeds somewhere in the north, and both the type- 

 specimens were shot on migration. 



XXXIV. — On the Skull, Sternum, and Shoulder-Girdle of 

 ^pyornis. By Chas. W. Andrews, B.Sc, F.G.S., 

 Assistant in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



(Plates VIII. & IX.) 



A SMALL collection of remains of the extinct birds of the 

 genus JEpyornis, including portions of two skulls, two 



