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15. MYZOMELA SIMPLEX. 



Myzomela simplex, G. E. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 349. 



Sordide griseo-brunnea, subtus dilutior ; remigibus et rectricibus rubido 

 limbatis ; margine internet remigum albida ; rostro pedibusque corneis, 

 his pallidioribus. Long. tot. 5*2, al. 2'3, caud. 2, rostr. '5, tarsi '6 

 (poll. Angl.). 



Hob. in Halmahera et insulis adjacentibus. 



This plainly-coloured Myzomela was first discovered by "Wallace in 

 the island of Batchian, and it also occurs in most of the other islands of 

 the Halmahera group of the Moluccas, but is replaced on Obi by the 

 nearly allied Myzomela rubrotincta. Count Salvadori informs me that he 

 has seen " many specimens in the Leyden Museum from Gilolo (Bernstein), 

 Tidore (Bernstein, Von Rosenberg), and Dammar (Bernstein). A specimen 

 from Ternate (Bruijn) is in Turati's collection. A single specimen from 

 Morty in the Museum of Leyden is much darker than the others." 



This species is allied to M. rubrobrunnea and M. rubrotincta, but differs 

 from them in the less extent of the red colour, which is confined to the 

 margins of the quills and tail-feathers. The sexes are probably similar 

 in colour ; I have not seen the young bird. 



16. MYZOMELA BFBBOTINCTA. P.Z S 1879 

 Myzomela rubrotincta, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xii. p. 344 (1878). p * 269t 



" Brunnea, dorso, alis et cauda pulcherrime rubro tinctis ; pectore, ab- 

 domine et subcaudalibus obsoletius rubro tinctis. Long. tot. '120 m., 

 dice -067, caud. -048, rostri -020, tars. -020." 



.Hob. " in ins. Obi (Bernstein)" Salvad. I. c. 



This species has recently been described by Count Salvadori from five 

 specimens two males and three females the two sexes are similar in 

 the Leyden Museum. He says it " resembles M. simplex of Gray from 

 Halmahera, in which only the remiges and rectrices (and not all the parts 

 between the head and neck) are margined with red, and in which the red 

 colour is very indistinct." 



17. MYZOMELA BUBBOBBTJNNEA. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Myzomela rubrobrunnea, Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. in Wien, Ixx. p. 203 

 (1874). 



c? grisescenti-brunneus, subtus dilutior, capite saturatiore, plumis plus 

 minusve vinaceo limbatis ; dorso inferiore et uropygio, cum marginibus 

 externis remigum et rectricum vinaceo-rubris ; alis cauddque subtus 

 griseis ; margine interna remigum albida ; rostro pedibusque nigro- 

 corneis. Long, tota circa 4, alee 2'4, caud. 1'8, rostr. '6, tars. '55 

 (pott. Angl.). 



$ mari similis, sed color ibus minus intensis et paullo minor. 

 Bab. in insula Mysore. 



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