1882.] DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. 705 



men9ant a prendre la teinte d'un bleu-vert du ventre." Salvadori, 

 on the contrary, describes mistakenly : — 



1. Mas. " Gutture albo ; gastraeo reliquo pallide caeruleo ( 5 ?)." 



2. Fcem. " Marl simillima, sed subtus alba, abdomine imo tantura 

 cseruleo ( d ?)•" 



3. Mas. jun. " Fceminse similis, sed colore albo pectoris partim 

 cseruleo tincto ( $ jun. ?)." 



I am of opinion that, judging from the seven males and two 

 females of Dr. Platen's, the description of Salvadori for No. 1 vcould 

 be that of a female, for 2 that of a male, and for 3 that of a young 

 female as Schlegel describes it. 



The three males from Ceram have the underparts in the rather 

 larger front half white, and in the rather smaller hind part blue ; 

 in the middle line the blue colour of the belly has with the addition 

 of the blue under tail-coverts a length of about 5-5 to 6-5 cm., 

 while in the two females from Amboina before me the blue of the 

 underparts, which extends up to the breast, has a length of 8 to 

 H-5 cm. 



Dr. Platen's remarks about the sex, which are evidently correct, 

 are so much the more valuable, as many specimens in different 

 museums seem to be kept under a wrong statement of sex, like the 

 two specimens in the Museum of Lubeck mentioned by Dr. Leiiz 

 (Cabau. J. f. Orn. 187", p. 368), which are also, as I believe, wrongly 

 labelled, as the just-named author communicates to me. 



No, 2 is in the collection of Mr. Nehrkorn. 



12. Saxjropatis chloris (Bodd.), Salvad. i. p. 470. 



Two specimens— 1." c?.Dec. 4, 1881;" 2." $.Nov. 21, 1881." 

 For both, the labels say : — " Iris brown. L. 24 cm., D. 4-5 cm. Bill 

 black ; reddish-white spot on the under mandible ; feet dark brown. 

 Lokki, Ceram." 



Both are young specimens, with a brownish -yellow shade on 

 the underparts and the band of the neck, and with light brownish 

 colouring of the light spots of the lores and on the tips of the fore- 

 head-feathers, and numerous little dark borders on the breast- 

 feathers. The brownish colour and the black bordering of the 

 breast-feathers are more conspicuous in the female (No. 2) than in 

 the male (No. 1); for which reason the first (which, on account of 

 the dirty-green upper part, bears a great resemblance to Sauropatis 

 sordida, Gould) should be regarded as the youngest of the two 

 specimens, notwithstanding the greater length (about a few milli- 

 metres) of the wings and bill. The Brunswick Museum possesses 

 three specimens from Celebes, on the two old birds of which the 

 white appears clear, while the third resembles the young male from 

 Ceram. The supposition of Dr. Lenz (Caban. J. f. O. 1877, p. 367) 

 that S. sancta (Vig. & Horsf.) might only be the young bird of 

 S. chloris (Bodd.), will hardly be confirmed (cf. Blasius and Nehr- 

 korn, torn. cit. p. 431, sp. 16). 



No. 2 is in the Brunswick Museum. 



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