yS E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 3, (not sexed), Noord River, 4 May 1907. Iris blue, bill black with white base to the lower 



mandible, feet dark greyish. 

 N°. 36, Ç>, Noord River, 12 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black with white base to the lower 



mandible, feet black. 

 N°. 145, çf, Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black, lower mandible with white 



base, feet black. 

 N°. 147, (not sexed), Noord River, 25 May 1907. Colours of soft parts like in n°. 145. 

 N°. 156, (not sexed), Noord River, 26 May 1907. Colours of soft parts like in n°. 145. 

 N°. 258, cf, Noord River, 15 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black, lower mandible white 



with black tip, feet dark grey. 

 N°. 296, rf, Sabang, 26 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black with white base to the lower 



mandible, feet black. 



Tanysïptera sylvia Salvador iana Ramsay. 



Tanysiptera salvadoriana Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, III, 1878, p. 259. — 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 453. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 1S92, p. 301. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 341, Q, Sabang, 14 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet orange. 



This is a still immature bird. Under surface pale cinnamon, throat whitish buff, the 

 feathers of the sides of the neck and of the breast with dusky fringes; forehead brownish 

 black with buff tips to the feathers; crownfeathers dark brown with bluish tips; hindneck, 

 feathers behind and above the eye bright blue; earcoverts black; upper back black with 

 a buffish white patch in the centre ; lower back, rump and upper tailcoverts white, mottled 

 with blackish ; sides of rump blackish ; tailfeathers dusky brown, outer webs with greenish 

 blue gloss; two centre tailfeathers elongated and edged with white at their inner web; quills 

 dusky brown, greenish at their outer web; upper wingcoverts greenish, broadly margined 

 with pale cinnamon; under wingcoverts pale cinnamon. Wing 94; tail 65, longest feather 88; 

 bill 33; tarso-met. 15 mm. 



Melidora macrorrhinus (Lesson). 



Dacclo macrorrhinus Lesson, Bull. Se. Nat. de Férussac, Paris, XII, 1827, p. 131. — ■ Id. Voy. 



Coqu. Zool. I, 2, 1828, p. 692, Atlas pi. 31 bis, f. 2. 

 Melidora inacrorhina, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 500. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 



1892, p. 201. 



Coll. KOCH : 



rf, Etna Bay, 4 December 1904. 

 Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 112, Q, Noord River, 22 May 1907. Iris dark brown, upper mandible black, lower mandible 



dull yellowish, feet greenish yellow. 

 N°. 335, rf, Sabang, 13 Juli 1907. Iris dark brown, upper mandible black, lower mandible dirty 



yellow, feet greenish yellow. 

 N°. 486, Ç, Geitenkamp. (not dated). Iris brown, upper mandible black, lower mandible black 



with yellow tip, feet yellowish green. 



In one of the females, n°. 112, the feathers of the forehead, crown and hindhead are 

 edged with greenish yellow, in the other one, n°. 486, they are edged with pure green. 



