18/8.] BIRDS OF TERNATE, AMBOYNA, ETC. 85 



stomach contained insects. In flocks on trees near the shore 



J. M.] 



The sexes are exactly alike. 



To this species have been referred also specimens from Ternate 

 and Bouru ; but those from Ternate agree better with Z. intermedia, 

 Wall., from Celebes ; and one specimen from Bouru in the British 

 Museum, collected by Wallace, belongs to a species not yet described. 



7. Carpophaga concinna, Wall. 



Carpophaga chalybura, G. R. Gr. (nee Bp.), P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 

 187, 196 (Aru). V n 



"Carpophaga chalybea, Bp." (errore), Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, 

 p. 132. sp. 226 (Aru). 



Carpophaga concinna, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 383. no. 52, Matabello 

 Island, Aru (a small island west of) (type examined) ; Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 200. no. 39 (1876). 



Carpophaga roseinucha, part., Schleg. Ned. Tiidschr. Dierk. iii 

 p. 197(1865). J 



[No. 296. Female. This bird was sent on board alive as a present 

 to the Professor. — J. M.] 



IV. Birds from the Ke Islands. 



[The ship arrived at Ke Doulan, Ke Islands, on the morning of 

 the 25th September, 1874, and left on the morning of the 26th 

 September. — J. M.~] 



The birds from Ke Islands are 25, representing 14 species ; they 

 have been all collected at the little island named Dulan'. 



The Ke Islands were quite unknown to naturalists before Wallace 

 made a short stay there of six days in January 1857. He only 

 obtained thirteen species in all 2 , which were catalogued, together with 

 those from the Aru Islands, by Mr. G. R. Gray 3 . Von Rosenberg- 

 made a longer stay on the Ke Islands, and collected there rather 

 extensively ; but no complete catalogue of his collection has been 

 published. He gave an account of his visit to the Ke Islands, and 

 of some of the birds collected there by him, in his ' Reis naar de 

 zuidoostereilanden gedaan en 1865,' pp. 67-83. 



Dr. Beccari in 1873 made a rather large collection of birds in 

 the Ke Islands. Of this some of the new species have been already 

 described by me 4 ; but I propose to give a complete account of it as 

 soon as my occupations permit. 



1 Cosmos di Giiido Cora, ii. tav. ii. (1874). 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Nist. (2), xx. p. 473 (1857). 



» P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 169-198. 



4 " Nuove specie di uccelli delle Isole Aru e Kei, raccolte da Odoardo Beccari " 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vi. pp. 73-80 (1874) ; "Altre nuove specie di ucceUi raccolte 

 nella Nuova Guinea dal Signor L. M. D'Albertis e neUe Isole Aru e Kei dal Dott 

 O. Beccari, op. cit. vi. pp. 308-314; " Descrizione di sei nuove specie di 

 uccelli delle Moluche, delle Kei e delle Isole Aru," op. cit. vii. pp. 983-990 



