710 DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. __ [Noy. 28, 
the outer tail-feathers protrudes only for about 1:5 mm. on the 
outer web and does not reach the tip by 3cm. This last black- 
tailed specimen possesses only twelve tail-feathers (if two feathers 
are absent on account of moulting, they are at any rate not the 
outer ones), while all the other specimens, as also the one from 
Amboina, have fourteen (or thirteen) tail-feathers. 
The male (No. 1) and the two females from Ceram, as well as the 
male from Amboina, are very like each other with regard to the 
colouring of the tail, and stand nearly exactly intermediate between 
the white-tailed (No. 2) and the black-tailed specimen (No. 3). 
With regard to the black spots on the lower abdomen and under 
tail-coverts, the white-tailed male (No. 2) does not show them, while 
No. 1 has only a slight trace of them on the belly and distinct 
black apical spots on the tail-coverts. The spots are a little less 
distinct in the female (No. 5), but exist in both places; while the 
male (No. 3) has strongly marked spots only on the belly, and the 
female (No. 4) has them only on the tail-coverts. The male 
from Amboina is similar to No. 3. 
I will only add that in the female (No. 5) among the incomplete 
tertiaries, the rest of which are white, one feather on the left side, 
standing in the midst of the white ones, appears exceptionally almost 
as blackish as the tertiaries of M. luctuosa generally are. 
The last three specimens Nos. 3, 4, and 5 have been retained for 
the Brunswick Museum. 
20. Mrcapropius rorsteNn1, Temm., Schlegel, Mus. Pay-Bas, 
Tinami (1880), p. 70; Salvad. Prodr. Orn. Papuas., Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Genova, xviii. p. 7, sp. 5 (1882). 
“* Male. Iris dark brown. L. 34 em., D. 1 cm. Bill horny 
brown. Skin round eyes black, feet dark brown. Lokki, Ceram, 
29 Nov. 1881.” 
The specimen is exactly similar to a male of the same species sent 
by Dr. Platen from Amboina and at present before me (cf. Blasius 
and Nehrkorn, tom. cit. p. 430, sp. 35). MM. forsteni differs 
from the nearly allied species M. freycineti, Quoy et Gaim., repre- 
sented in the Brunswick Museum, in the somewhat different shade of 
colour of the plumage (which is on the whole uniformly brown), and 
in its somewhat smaller size. 
The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 
21. BuroripEs savanica (Horsf.), Salvadori, Prodr. Orn. Pa- 
puas., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. 334, sp. 61 (1882). 
Ardea javanica, Horsf., Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 183; Rosenberg, 
Malayisch. Arch. 1879, p. 324. 
‘* Female. Iris golden yellow. LL.40 cm.,D.1cm._ Bill black. 
Skin round eyes and feet yellowish. Lokki, Ceram, 19 Nov. 
1881.” 
The specimen has uniform black-green lustrous feathers on the 
head, some of which form a long crest, and broad ferruginous edgings 
