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outer secondaries to the end of the primaries heing at least 

 1-2 cm. less. There is thus a larger bird with apparently 

 less power of flight. The first abortive primary is very 

 much longer and wider. 



Hab. Amami Oshima or Amami Island, in the northern 

 Riu Kiu or Loo Choo group of Japanese Islands. 



Type: S ad. No. 506. Amami Oshima, lO.xii. 1904. 

 Collected by Alan Owston^s Japanese collectors. Evidently 

 a resident on the island. 



Obs. I should not have hesitated to regard this interesting 

 bird as a species, and to name it binomially, if it had not 

 been that the Tring Museum received also a young bird 

 (No. 502) which is very much redder than the adult birds, 

 thus so closely resembling S. rusticola rusticola that it might 

 easily be mistaken for it, though it undoubtedly belongs 

 to >S. r. mira, having the wider beak, longer tarsi and toes, 

 darker under wing-coverts, longer secondaries, and more 

 uniform inner webs of the outer primaries. This new 

 Woodcock is of particular interest, as hitherto all attempts 

 to divide our species into races have failed. 



Dr. Hartert also described a new form of Coracina as 

 follows : — 



Coracina novaehollandise kuehni, subsp. n. 



Similar to Coracina {=Graucah^s auct.) novcehollandice 

 melanops from New South Wales, but the black of the 

 throat does not extend so far downwards ; the breast is 

 paler, the nppei'side lighter. Differs from C. n. siibpallida 

 Mathews in being much darker on the upperside, while the 

 coloration of the underside is almost the same. 



Hab. Kei Islands. Specimens from the Aru Islands 

 appear to belong to the same race, also those from Tiandu 

 and Taam (South-east Islands), but no adult birds from 

 these Islands are available, and one from Sula Bessi. 



Type: ? ad. Tual, Little Kei Islands, i.x. 1897. Col- 

 lected by the late H. Kuehn. Named in memory of the 

 collector, who for many years lived and collected on the 

 Kei Islands, and died in the Eastern Archipelago. 



