1878.] BIROS OF TERNATE, AMBOYNA, ETC. 97 



marked females, differ from two other specimens collected by Beccaii, 

 marked males. These have the head, the neck, the tail, and the 

 upper tail-coverts jet-black ; and the breast in one specimen is tinged 

 with black more conspicuously than in the others. Ought we to 

 believe that the plumage of the first three specimens, described by 

 Sharpe as that of the young bird, is also the plumage of the adult 

 female, or that by a strange combination all the three specimens 

 marked females are really young ones 1 



23. Cracticus cassicus (Bodd.). 



[No. 218. Female, Wok an : eyes dark, deep blue; base of the 

 mandibles light-coloured, with a tinge of blue, tips of mandibles 

 black ; stomach with leaves and seeds. — J. M.~\ 



24. Cyrtostomus frenatus (S. Mull.). 



[No. 222. Male, Wokan : eyes black ; bill and feet black.— J. if.] 



25. Myzomela nigrita, G. R. Gr. 



Myzomela nigrita, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 173, Aru (type 

 examined). 



Myzomela erythrocephala, Meyer (nee Gould), Sitzb. k. Ak. Wiss. 

 zu Wien, lxx. p. 204 (1874), $ and young $ (specimens examined). 



[No. 232. Wokan, male : eyes hazel; bill and feet black ; stomach 

 had insects. — J. M.~\ 



Gray describes the male as " entirely shining deep black," omit- 

 ting to mention that it has the under wing-coverts and the inner edges 

 of the remiges white. 



26. Xanthotis filigera (Gould). 



Ptilotis filigera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 278, pi. 34, Cape York. 



[No. 261. Wanumbai, male. — /. M.] 



This bird has the light spots on the nape scarcely visible. Two 

 specimens from Utanata, collected by S. Miiller, in the Museum of 

 Leyden, belong to this species and not to the northern form X. 

 chrysotis (Less.). 



27. Drymaozdus beccarii, Salvad. 



Brymacedus beccarii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 965. sp. 

 52 (1875), Arfak. 



[No. 257. Wanumbai, male. — J. M.~\ 



This example agrees completely with the type from the Arfak 

 Mountains. This is a new species for the Aru Islands. 



28. Calornis metallica (Temm.). 



[Nos. 215, 216, 217. Males, Wokan: eyes coral-red ; bill and legs 

 black ; small black seeds in the stomach of the adult males. The 

 above were the most abundant birds we saw on the 1 7th September 

 1874.— J. ^ If.] 



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