1882.] DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. 709 
18. CarpopHaGa NEGLECTA, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. 
pp- 195, 344 (1865); Mus. Pays-Bas, Columba, p. 90; Salvad. Prodr. 
Orn. Papuas., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ix. p. 201, sp. 46; Lenz, J. f.O. 
1877, p. 377, sp. 58 ; Rosenberg, Malayisch. Arch. 1879, p. 323. 
“ Female. Iris brown. L. 42 cm., D.9cm. Bill blue-grey ; feet 
and cere reddish violet. Lokki, Ceram, 26 Nov. 1881.” 
This species has been as yet observed only in the islands of Ceram, 
Amboina, and Boano’; it is a representative of the nearly related 
C. perspicillata (Temm.). 
The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 
19. Myristicrvora MELANURA, G. R. Gray, Salvad. Prodr. Orn. 
Papuas., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ix. p. 203, sp. 56 ; ibid. viii. p. 381, 
sp. 36. 
MM. bicolor (Scop.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Columba, p. 98 ; 
Lenz, J. f. O. 1877, p. 379, sp, 62; Rosenberg, Malayisch. Arch. 
1879, p. 323. 
Five specimens (three males and two females). For all, the label 
repeats :—‘‘Iris brown. Bill and feet blue-grey. Lokki, Ceram.” 
1. “3.1L. 36 em., D.6 cm. 25 Nov. 1881. Cere blue-grey.” 
2. «3. L. 37 cm., D.6 em. 25 Nov. 1881.” 
3. “3g. L. 37 cm., D.6 cm. 16 Dec. 1881. Cere blue-grey.” 
4.*9.L. 37 cm., D.6cm. 25 Nov. 1881.” 
5. “oO. L, 37em., D.6.em. 3 Dec. 1881.” 
I place this species under the name melanura, Gray, because Salva- 
dori in his ‘ Prodromus,’ too, separates this species and the nearly 
allied M. spilorrhoa, Gray, from M. bicolor (Scop.). Schlegel unites 
the three forms in the ‘ Mus. Pays-Bas’ (Columée, p. 98) under the 
original name M. bicolor, and justifies this by the statement that the 
extent of the black and the white on the feathers of the tail, and the 
formation of the black spots on the lower tail-coverts and on the 
feathers of the lower abdomen are very variable, so that no species 
could be founded thereon. AsI have only before me some specimens 
from Ceram, and one specimen (male) sent by Dr. Platen from 
Amboina (cf. Blasius and Nehrkorn, tom. cit. p. 429, sp. 32), 
which have all been regarded as M. melanura by Gray and 
Salvadori, I have not the possibility of comparison with the other 
forms. But it is certain that some of the specimens before me, in 
particular No. 2, shows so great an extension of the white on the 
tail-feathers that they do not conform to Gray’s original diagnosis of 
M. melanura. 
In No. 2 the white on the two external tail-feathers protrudes far 
beyond the shaft on the outer web, so that in some places only 
a dark stripe of about 1 mm. width is left; and at the tip the 
darker colouring extends only about 1 cm. down, and on the left 
side can be called only a “whitish grey.” No. 3, on the 
contrary, has a decidedly black tail; the white of the inner web of 
1 A small island near Ceram. 
