1863.] MR. A. R. WALLACE ON THE BIRDS OP BOURU. 19 



With these exceptions, most of the Moluccan types are represented 

 either by identical or aUied species. 



The following is a list of the new species now described, and of a 

 few others which seem confined to Bourn :— 



Tanygnathus affinis, n. s., Bouru Mimeta bouruensis (H. & J.). 



and Ceram. Criniger mysticalis, n. s. 



Aeeipiter rubricollis, n. s., Bouru Monarcha loricata, n. s. 



and Ceram. Rhipidura bouruensis, n. s. 



Athene hantu, n. s. Tropidorhynchusbouruensis,xi.s. 



Tanysiptera acts, n. s. Campephaga marginata, n. s. 



Ceyx cajeli, n. s. Diceeum erythrothorax, Less. 



Pitta rubrinucha, Wallace. Nectarinea proserpina, n. s. 



Cisticola rustica, n. s. Gallinula frontata, n. s. 



All but the two first species in this list are confined to Bouru only, 

 and they are mostly representative species of Moluccan forms. 

 Besides these, the three species of Pachycephala are also, as far as 

 the Moluccas are concerned, peculiar to Bouru ; for though they are 

 found also in Sula, they have evidently emigrated there, the Celebes 

 group, to which Sula belongs, not possessing any species of the 

 genus. The Island of Bouru may therefore be considered to have 

 added seventeen new species, but not any new forms or genera, to 

 the Moluccan avifauna. 



Geoffroius personatus. 



Psittacus personatus, Shaw. 



P. bataviensis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 624. 



Hab. Bouru, Amboyna, Ceram, Goram, Ke and Aru Islands. 



Remarks. — The specimens from Bouru, and some from Ceram, are 

 12^ inches long ; that from the Aru Islands 9 inches ; but I have a 

 series of intermediate sizes, and can discover no differences of form 

 or in the distribution of the colours. I must therefore consider Mr. 

 G. R. Gray's Psittacus aruensis (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 183) as only a 

 small variety of this species, and his P. capistratus, from the Ke 

 Islands {ibid. p. 183), as a young male bird of the same species. 



ECLECTUS MAGNUS. 



Psittacus magnus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 344. 



Hab. Bouru and the other islands of the Moluccas and New 

 Guinea. 



EcLECTUS PUNICEUS. 



Psittacus puniceus, Gm. ? (et auct.) PI. Enl. 518. 



Hab. Bouru, Amboyna, and Ceram. 



Remarks. — This bird is sufficiently distinct from the Psittacus 

 grandis, Gm., which is confined to the Gilolo group, in its smaller 

 size, duller red colour, red under tail-coverts, and tail only orange- 

 tipped, in place of the yellow under tail-coverts and larger yellow 

 tail-band of E. grandis. Great confusion exists in the synonymy of 

 the Psittaci, owing, I believe, to the fact of so many of these birds 



