1884.] COUNT SA.1/VADORI ON BIRDS FROM TIMOR-LAUT. 579 



Philemon timorlaoensis, Meyer. 



Philemon p/umigenis, Selat. (nee Gray), P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 

 195 ; Sharpe, in Gould's B. New Guinea, pt. xvi. pi. 13. 



Philemon timorlaoensis, Meyer, op. cit. p. 41. 



Philemon timorluutensis, Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 429, 432, 

 n. 34. 



Three typical specimens. I have at hand only one specimen of 

 true P. plumigenis from Ke Islands to compare with them. They 

 differ very slightly, having the whole head a little lighter and the 

 sides of the head also paler, the edges of the feathers being nearly 

 silvery whitish ; the bill in the Timor-Laut specimens is thinner. 



Pitta vigorsi, Gould. 



Pitta brachyura, Meyer (nee Gm.), Sitzb. Isis, 1S84, p. 43 

 (Dammar). 



Pitta vigorsii, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Orn. 1834, p. 210 (Timor- 

 Laut). 



Two specimens from Dammar and Timor-Laut, which seem refer- 

 able to this species ; but I have not been able to compare them 

 with specimens from Banda. 



Calornis circumscripta, Meyer. 



Calornis metallica, Sclat. (nee Temm.), P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 

 195. 



Calornis circumscripta, Meyer, op. cit. p. 49. 



Calornis gularis, Forbes (nee Gray), P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 430,433, 

 n. 41. 



Five typical specimens. I am inclined to recognize C. circum- 

 scripta as a good species, more allied to C. metallica than to my 

 C. inornata from Mysore. It is to be distinguished from the first, 

 especially on account of the two violet lines which run along the 

 branches of the under mandible on the sides of the throat and meet 

 at the chin, so that they describe a V ; besides, it has the green 

 collar on the back of the neck narrower and the upper back is 

 violet, with the green triangular spot in the middle, generally so 

 conspicuous in C. metallica, wanting, or scarcely perceptible. 



Mr. Forbes has recently stated that Calornis circumscripta is the 

 same as C. gularis, Gray, from Mysol, hitherto only known from one 

 specimen. I cannot agree to this identification. The type of C. gularis, 

 which I have carefully examined, is only an individual variation of C. 

 metallica with more purple on the throat, like other specimens from 

 Halmahera and Cape York, examined by me. C. circumscripta 

 is evidently an insular form of the widely extended C. metallica, like 

 C. inornata from Mysore and C. purpureiceps from the Admiralty 

 Islands ; and I do not think it possible that the same species can 

 be found in Mysol and in Timor-Laut, so wide apart one from the 

 other, while true C. metallica lives in so many islands lying between 

 them. 



