1882. ] DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. 705 
mencant A prendre la teinte d’un bleu-vert du ventre.” Salvadori, 
on the contrary, describes mistakenly :— 
1. Mas. ‘ Gutture albo; gastreo reliquo pallide czeruleo ( 9 7).” 
2. Feem. “ Mari simillima, sed subtus alba, abdomine imo tantum 
ceeruleo (¢ P).” 
3. Mas. jun. ‘ Foemine similis, sed colore albo pectoris partim 
ceruleo tincto (Q 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 would 
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 
8°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. Lenz 
(Caban. J. f. Orn. 1877, 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. Savropatis cutoris (Bodd.), Salvad. i. p. 470. 
Two specimens—1.“* ¢. Dec. 4, 1881;” 2.“ 9. Nov. 21, 1881.” 
For both, the labels say :—‘‘ Iris brown. L. 24 cm.,D.4*5em. 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, tom. cit. p. 431, sp. 16). 
No. 2 is in the Brunswick Museum. 
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