1878.] BIRDS OF TERNATE, AMBOYNA, ETC. 87 



4. Rhipidura assimilis, G. R. Gr. 



Rhipidura assimilis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 1/6, Ke Islands 

 (type examined). 



[No. 286. Male : insects in the stomach ; eyes black. — /. M.] 

 This species is allied to R. isura, Gould, from Australia, and to 

 R. setosa (Q. & G.) from New Ireland and New Guinea; it 

 differs from the first in the larger dimensions, in the paler band 

 across the breast, and in the spot at the tip of the two outer tail- 

 feathers less extended and light fulvous instead of white ; from R. 

 setosa it is easily distinguished by the upper tail-coverts rufescent. 



5. Graucalus pollens, Salvad. 



Graucalus pollens, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. v. p. 75 (1874). 



[No. 280. Female: eyes black; stomach contained seeds; feet 

 and bill black.—/. Jf.] 



This specimen agrees entirely with the typical females described 

 by me. This species comes next to G. caledonicus (Gm.) from New 

 Hebrides and New Caledonia ; but it differs in the dimensions being 

 somewhat smaller and in the darker colour. It is also allied to Gr. 

 personatus, Mull., from Timor; but it is larger, darker, and also 

 conspicuously different in the under wing-coverts, which are not 

 white, but dark like the rest of the plumage. 



In the British Museum I have seen a Graucalus, said to have been 

 collected by Wallace in the Sula Islands, and wrongly named G. 

 temmincki, which is very much like the females from the Ke Islands, 

 except that it is a little smaller. 



6. Lalage karu (Less.). 



Lanius Tcaru, Less. Voy. Coq. Atlas, pi. 16 ("1826). 



Ceblepyris karu, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. 2, p. 633 (1828) (type 

 examined). 



Lalage karu, Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 168. 



[Nos. 282, 283. Males : eyes black ; stomach contained in the 

 one seeds, in the other insects. — /. M.] 



Two specimens, one " male " (No. 282) fully adult, with the 

 upper parts shining black, the under wing-coverts pure white, and 

 the breast and the abdomen barred across ; this is exactly like 

 another specimen from Naiabui, collected by Signor D'Albertis and 

 marked female (!) (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 28. sp. 108, 1876). 

 The second specimen (No. 283) is also marked " male : " it is not 

 fully adult ; it has the upper parts grey, and the under wing-coverts, 

 as well as the underparts, tinged with reddish. 



I suspect that to the same species must be referred the Ceblepyris 

 rufiventris, Jacq. & Pucher., and I question whether it really was 

 from Raffles Bay. The type of this species, examined by me in the 

 Museum of Paris, agrees entirely with two specimens from the Aru 

 Islands, collected by Beccari, and which are exactly like the type of 

 Lalage polygrammica, G. R. Gr., also from the Aru Islands. 



