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NECTARINIA AURICEPS. 
Nectarinia auriceps, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 348. 
Hab. Sula Islands, Batchian, and Gilolo. 
ANTHREPTES LEPIDA. 
Certhia lepida, Lath. 
Anthreptes javanica, Sw. Zool. Ill. t. 121. 
Hab. Sula Islands, Celebes and islands westward of it. 
Remark.—This is the furthest eastern range of the species, which 
does not reach the Moluccas. 
Corvus VALIDUS, var. 
Corvus validus, Schleg. “ Not. sur le genre Corvus.” 
In size between C. validus and C. enca (but the latter has the third 
quill longest) : fourth and fifth quills longest, nearly equal ; third a 
little longer than the sixth; second between sixth and seventh; wings 
reach nearly to end of tail; wings 103 to 11 inches; tail 53 inches ; 
total length 16 inches; bill 2 inches to 24 inches to root of feathers 
on culmen X 2 inch deep. Skin bare and black behind the eye ; tail 
rounded ; side feathers 3 inch, shorter than middle feathers, entirely 
purple-black, less glossy beneath ; iris olive-brown. 
Hab. Sula Islands, Celebes, Java, and Sumatra. 
CALORNIS METALLICA. 
Lamprotornis metallica, Temm. Pl. Col. 266. 
C. viridescens et amboinensis, G. R. Gray. 
I cannot separate the birds of this little group, whether from Am- 
boina, Ceram, Gilolo, Batchian, or the Aru Islands, from this speci- 
men from Sula ; and as Temminck first described the Amboina bird, 
his name must be retained. 
Hab. Sula Islands and the Moluccas. 
CaLornis OBSCURA, Var. 
Lamprotornis obscura, Bp. (ex Forst.) Consp. Gen. Av. 417. 
The numerous modifications of this bird, varying slightly in colour, 
form, and dimensions in eyery island of the Moluccas, cannot, I think, 
be separated into distinct species, for the simple reason that it is 
quite impossible to characterize them intelligibly, or even to separate 
them from each other, when their localities are unknown. This 
variety is rather larger and rather greener than the type form of 
Gilolo. C. mysolensis, G. R. Gray, has a more purple tinge, and C. 
placidus, G. R. Gray, MSS., more olivascent. These I would con- 
sider all as local varieties. C. cantoroides, G. R. Gray, from Mysol, 
will alone stand as a good species, being very distinct from C. obscura 
in its short square tail. 
Hab. Sula Islands and the Moluccas. 
“Length 9} inches ; iris red.” 
