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Pacht/cephala— one of the groups I am particularly interested in — 

 was obtained by them which was not also in my collection. After 

 comparing Dr. Meyer's descriptions with the long series I have of 

 this bird, nearly all of which Dr. Sclater had before him when 

 writing his original description, and which contains birds in almost 

 every stage of plumage, from the young bird to the fully adult, I 

 have little hesitation in affirming that P. arctitorquis, 5 (Meyer), 

 from Timor-Laut and Babbar, is but the immature male, and P. kebi- 

 rensis (Meyer) the nearly fully adult female of P. arctitorquis, in 

 which the colour of the bill, when fully adult, is black ; while P. 

 riedelii is a still younger female of the same species. From this it 

 would seem clear to me that P. arctitorquis, Scl., occurs in Babbar 

 also, for the examples before Dr. Meyer from that island were young 

 males and immature females, while from Timor-Laut he had adult 

 males, immature males ( $ , Meyer), and still younger females 

 {riedelii, Meyer). 



In describing a Myzomela, 5, from Ceram, Dr. Meyer is in doubt 

 as to whether it may not be the female of the species described by 

 me as M. wakoloensis from Burn, without knowing the dimensions. 

 As these are not given in the 9th vol. of the Cat. of Birds in the British 

 Museum, I append them here. Total length 93 millim., mngs 52-5- 

 55, tail 35-38, tarsus 15, beak 12-13. 



'^Philemon timorlaoensis is the name proposed by Dr. Meyer for 

 the species designated P. ^/wwizV/ewis by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51 

 & 195). The Timor-Laut bird certainly differs from that from Ke, 

 but the differences are scarcely to be formulated in words. The 

 Tenimber bird seems intermediate between the Burn and Ke birds. 

 Dr. Gadow, in the 9th vol. of the Cat. of Birds, has not separated 

 the species, nor has Mr. Sharpe in the 16th part of Gould's 'Birds 

 of New Guinea,' though he has expressed doubts as to their identity. 

 Instead, however, of the rather ineuphonious cluster of vowels in the 

 latter part of the new designation, may I suggest the more correct 

 timorlautensis, inasmuch as timorlao is evidently a corruption of the 

 word for " Sea-ward Timor " ? 



The species of Calornis from the Tenimber Islands has been distin- 

 guished from C. metallica as a new species, C. circnmscripta. I have 

 a large series of skins in my collection, and that they belong to a 

 species distinct from C. metallica is undoubted, and, as Dr. Meyer 

 observes, they can, when mixed up with any number of species of 

 Calornis, be unhesitatingly picked out by the coloration of the 

 throat. The throat-plumes in C. metallica are prominently longer 

 and more mucronate than those in the Timor-Laut specimens. The 

 Tiolet of the mantle, however, contrary to the note of Dr. Meyer, has 

 the blue-green reflexions observable in C. metallica quite distinct 

 in most of my specimens, if the eye be " placed between the bird and 

 the light" in position A, as described by Dr. Gadow (P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 409), that is with " the eye and the light almost in a level with the 

 j)lanes to be examined." A species of C'«/ti/v/?s discovered by Mr. Wallace 

 in Mysol (of which the type is in the British Museum) was named 

 C. gularis by G. R. Gray ; but was considered by Count Salvadori 



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