LAND-BIRDS OF BANDA ISLANDS. 349 



Edoliisoma dispar (Ke Caterpillar- eater). 

 Edoliisoma dispar, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 329. 

 Ceram Group : Banda, Goram, Manavoka, Matabela Islands 

 (Tiur), Ke Islands. 



Ehipidura squamata (Scale-breasted Flycatcher). 



Rhipidura squamata, Mull., Verb. Land-en-Volkenk. p. 189 

 (1839-44). 



Papuan Islands: New Guinea, Waygiou, Salwatti. Ceram 

 Group : Banda Islands. 



Food. — Insects. 



Monarcha cinerascens (Ashen Flycatcher). 



Drymophila cinerascens, Temm., PI. Col. iii. 430, fig. 2, 1827. 



Celebes Group : Celebes, Sula Islands. Timor Group : Kisser, 

 Timor. Ceram Group : Amboyna, Banda Islands, Goram, Tiur, 

 Ke Islands. Gilolo Group : Gilolo, Ternate, Batchian, Tifori. 

 Papuan Islands : Aru Islands, Mysol, Mefur, New Guinea, Echi- 

 quier Islands, Admiralty Islands, Duke of York Islands, Fead 

 Islands. 



Food. — Insects. 



An example from Kisser in the Dresden Royal Zoological 

 Museum may be a local variety.* 



Pachycephala ph^onota, S. Mull. (Brown-backed Tbickhead). 



Myiolestes phaionotus, Mull., Mus. Lugd. Bonap. Consp. i. 

 p. 358 (1850). 



Mefur, Waygiou, Salwatti, Mysol, Ternate, Mareh, Motir, 

 Tifori, Banda, Ceram Laut, Dama. 



Food. — Insects. 



Myzomela boiei, S. Mull. (Boie's Honey- eater). 



Nectarinia (Myzomela) boiei, S. Mull., Verh. Land-en-Volkenk. 

 p. 172 (1839-44). 



Banda Island. 



Food. — Insects have been found in the stomach of a dis- 

 sected specimen ;t the bird probably consumes nectar also. 



* A. B. Meyer, ' Ueber neue und ungemigend bekannte Vogel, Nester 

 und Eier aus dem ostindischen Archipel.' p. 22, 



•f- ' Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger.' 

 Zoology, vol. ii. ' Report on the Birds Collected.' By P. L. Sclater, p. 66. 



