708 DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. [NoV. 28, 



15. Cyrtostomus zenobia (Less.), Salvad. ii. p. 2G2. 



"Female. Iris brown. L. 10 cm., D. 1*5 cm. Bill aud feet 

 black. Lokki, Ceram, 17 Nov. 1881." 



In the Brunswick Museum several specimens exist of the nearly 

 allied species C. frenatus (S. Miill.) from Celebes, a very good 

 species, which is distinguished by the yellow colour of the belly of 

 the male. The females on the other hand are not to be distinguished. 

 Salvadori explains by this conformity of the plumage of the female 

 the mistakes with regard to the countries where the two species are 

 found. 



The underparts of the present specimen are not so vividly coloured 

 as tiiose of another female sent by Dr. Platen from Amboiua (cf. 

 Blasius and Nehrkorn, torn. cit. p. 425, sp. 23). 



The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 



16. Philemon subcorniculatus (Hombr. et Jacq.), Salvad. ii. 

 p. 355. 



Two specimens (1. " J, 17 Nov. 1881"; 2. 2, 16 Nov. 1881"). 

 For both, the label repeats : — " Iris brown. L. 35 cm., D. 9 cm. Bill 

 brown. Skin round eyes and feet j'ellow-bronn. Lokki, Ceram." 



No difference of sex is to be remarked. If Hombron and Jacquinot 

 state the length of bill to be 1 1 cm., this must be a mistake in writing 

 or printing. The bill of the specimens in question measures about 

 4 '5 cm. ; and Salvadori, who has examined the original specimen, 

 states the length of bill in that to be 4*6 cm. The description 

 of this species, which is very similar to Ph. corniculatus, but has a 

 scarcely marked horn, coincides almost exactly witb the specimens 

 of Dr. Platen. 



No. 1 is in the Brunswick Museum ; No. 2 in the collection of 

 Mr. Nehrkorn. 



17. CoRvus viOLACEUs, Forstcr, Salvad. ii. p. 487- 

 "Female. Iris brown. L. 34 cm., D. 2 cm. Bill and feet black. 



Lokki, Ceram, 1/ Nov. 1881." 



The specim.en, which nearly resembles in size our Jackdaw (Corvus 

 monedula), agrees with the smallest of the measurements given by 

 Salvadori, and is to be regarded on that account, as well as on 

 account of the yet faint appearance of the metallic lustre on the 

 feathers, as a young bird. The species belongs, in contrast to C. 

 validus and C. validissimus (both represented in the Brnnsw. Mus.), 

 to the short-billed species of Corvus of the fauna of the Moluccas. 

 On the specimen in question the bill is still decidedly shorter than 

 in the figure given by Schlegel in the ' Bijdr. tot de Dierk.' in 1859. 



The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 



N.B. In the following species, which will be treated in the 

 third, not yet published, volume of Sulvadori's work, I follow the 

 systematic arrangement given by Salvadori in the ' Uccelli di 

 Borneo,' and accept the nomenclature of his ' Prodromus.' 

 Besides I cite some of the principal recent monographic and 

 ornithological papers. 



