1 8 The Banda Islands and the Bandan Birds 



To those which I have already mentioned there may there- 

 fore be added, as of less frequency, the accipitrine bird, Astur 

 polionofus, the Hoary-backed Goshawk ; the Passeres Edoliisoma 

 dispar, a Caterpillar Shrike, the skin of a male of which from 

 Great Banda is in the Leyden Museum, and Motacilla melanope, 

 the Grey Wagtail. Of picarian birds there have been found 

 Cuculus intermediuS) the Oriental Cuckoo ; Eudynamis cyanocephala 

 sub-species everetti, a small form of the Koel, and Eurystomus 

 australis, the Australian Roller. Joao de Barros, in his Asia, 

 mentions the parrots of the Banda Islands,* and we find accordingly 

 that one of the Psittaci is recorded from Banda in modern times, 

 namely, Eos rubra, a red, or rather a crimson lory. The orni- 

 thologist Miiller saw many of these birds in Great Banda, on the 

 Kanary trees. Additional pigeons are the seed-eating Chal- 

 cophaps chrysochlora and the fruit-eating Plilonopus wattacei, and 

 finally there is one gallinaceous bird which is probably resident, 

 but the shy and retiring habits of which have enabled it to escape 

 observation until recently. This is a Scrub Fowl (Megapodius 

 duperreyi). 



* III. v. 6. ' Muitos papagayos & passaros diversos.' 



