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Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 262, rf, Bivak Island, 17 June 1907. Iris orange brown, bill bluish grey, lower mandible 

 dull white, feet bluish grey. 



This spécimen is changing its plumage. It wears still the barred plumage, but has 

 several greenish black feathers on head, wingcoverts, breast and rump and in the tail. Wing 

 193, tail 214, bill 27.5, tarso-met. 30 mm. 



Eudynamis rufiventer (Lesson). 



Cueillies rufiventer Lesson, Voy. Coqu. Zool. I, 1828, p. 623. 



Eudynamis rufiventer, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1SS0, p. 368. — Shelley, Cat. B. Br. M. XIX, 



1891, p. 325. 

 Eudynamis orientalis rufiventer, Hartert, Nov. Zool. X, 1903, p. 238. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 3°7, rf ad., Sabang, 3 July 1907. Iris red, bill grey with black base, feet dark grey. 



This spécimen is in the uniform greenish black plumage with blue lustre. The bill 

 has in the skin a strong greenish yellow tinge. Wing 178, tail 173, bill 28, tarso-met. 31 mm. 



Centropus me?iebiki Garnot. 



Centropus menebiki Garnot, Voy. Coqu Zool. I, 2, 1828, p. 600. (Centropus menbeki, Atlas Voy. 



Coqu. Zool. pi. 33). — Shelley, Cat. B. Br. M. XIX, 1891, p. 336. 

 Nesocentor menebiki, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 377. 



Coll. KOCH: 



Ç, Etna Bay, 15 December 1904. Iris red, bill white, feet black. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 105, Q, Noord River, 22 May 1907. Iris red, bill black, feet slate-blue. 



N°. 225, rf, Van Weel's kamp, n June 1907. Iris red, bill greyish blue, feet black. 



N°- 255, rf, Van Weel's kamp, June 1907. Iris brick-red, bill black with dull white tip, feet 



greyish black. 

 N°. 264, Q juv., Van Weel's kamp, 16 June 1907. Iris red, bill and feet slate-blue. 



The colour of the bill seems to change considerably after death, for in ail the four 

 skins of the LORENTZ-collection, it is for the greater part yellowish white, only blackish 

 towards the base. 



Centroptis pliasianus nigricans (Salvadori). 



Polophilus nigricans Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, IX, 1876, p. 17. — Id. Orn. Pap. I, 



1880, p. 390. 

 Centropus nigricans, Shelley, Cat. B. Br. M. XIX, 1891, p. 339. 



Coll. KOCH: 



Juv., Merauke, 4 August 1904. Iris red, feet steel-blue. 

 9 juv., Merauke, 18 September 1904. Iris red. 

 Ç ad., Merauke, 12 October 1904. Iris red. 



In the collection of the Leyden Muséum is an example of this species from the Fly River. 



