708 DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. __[Noy. 28, 
15. Cyrtostomus zENosiA (Less.), Salvad. ii. p. 262. 
“ Female. Iris brown. L. 10 cm., D. 1°5 em. Bill and feet 
black. Lokki, Ceram, 17 Nov. 1881.” 
In the Brunswick Museum several specimens exist of the nearly 
allied species C. frenatus (S. Mill.) 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 those of another female sent by Dr. Platen from Amboina (cf. 
Blasius and Nehrkorn, tom. cit. p. 425, sp. 23). 
The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 
16. Partemon suscornicutatus (Hombr. et Jacq.), Salvad. ii. 
p- 309. 
Two specimens (1. “ ¢, 17 Nov. 1881 »”. 2. 9, 16 Nov. 1881”). 
For both, the label repeats: —“ Iris brown. L.35 cm., D.9cm. Bill 
brown. Skin round eyes and feet yellow-brown. Lokki, Ceram.” 
No difference of sex is to be remarked. If Hombron and Jacquinot 
state the length of bill to be 11 em., 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 with the specimens 
of Dr. Platen. 
No. 1 is in the Brunswick Museum; No. 2 in the collection of 
Mr. Nehrkorn. 
17. Corvus vioLacevus, Forster, Salvad. ii. p. 487. 
“ Female. Iris brown. L. 34cm., D.2 cm. Bill and feet black. 
Lokki, Ceram, 17 Nov. 1881.” 
The specimen, 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. ‘Ihe species belongs, in contrast to C. 
validus and C. validissimus (both represented in the Bransw. 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 Salvadori’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. 
