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 Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 511, Q, Merauke, 13 November 1907. Iris orange yellow, bill black, feet dark red (!). 



Chin, throat and cheeks are blackish, fore neck greyish brown, streak behind the eye and 



sides of neck chestnut; head and hindneck blackish vvith a greenish gloss ; upper parts 



blackish brown ; upper breast and vent ashy, rest of undersurface white. The feet are des- 



cribed by Mr. LORENTZ as being dark red; this will be surely a mistake. Bill 19, wing 107 mm. 



Phalacrocoracidae. 



PJialacrocorax melanoleucos (Vieillot). 



Hydrocorax melanoleucos Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. VIII, 1817, p. 88. 

 Microcarbo melanoleucus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III. 1882, p. 410. 

 PJialacrocorax melanoleucus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p. 398. 



Coll. KOCH: 



cf, Merauke, 26 September 1904. Iris grey. 

 Q, Merauke, 26 September 1904. Iris grey. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 386, rj 1 , Alkmaar, 3 August 1907. Iris dark brown with dull white ring, upper mandible black 

 with yellow margins, lower mandible yellow with greenish yellow base, feet black. 



Ardeidae. 



Herodias alba timoriensis (Lesson). 



Ardea timoriensis Lesson, Traité d'Orn. 1831, p. 575. 



Herodias torra, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 1882, p. 350. 



Herodias timoriensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, pp. 98, 270. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 177, 9> Van Weel's kamp, 1 June 1907. Iris yellow, bill orange-yellow, feet black. 



N°. 254, çf, Van Weel's kamp, June 1907. Iris and bill yellow, feet black. 



N°. 387, rf, Alkmaar, 3 August 1907. Iris yellow, bill orange-yellow, feet black. 



Ail thèse spécimens hâve some ornamental plumes; they are not in full breeding dress. 



Notophoyx picata (Gould). 



Ardea (Herodias) picata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1845, P- 62. 



Ardea aricensis G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, p. 188. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 



1882, p. 344. 

 Ardea picata, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 1882, p. 343. 

 Notophoyx picata, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p 112. 

 Notophoyx aruensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p. 113. 



Coll. KOCH: 



Ad. Merauke, 30 July 1904. Iris light yellow, bill yellow, feet yellow-green. 

 9 juv., Merauke, 15 October 1904. Iris yellow. 

 9 juv., Merauke, r5 October 1904. Iris yellow. 



