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NOTE X. 



ON MACRUROPSAR MAGNUS BREVICAUDA 



liov. subspec. 

 PROM THE ISLAND OF MEFOOR 



BY 



Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 



In 1870 our traveller von Rosenberg sent to the Leyden 

 Museum under the name of Lamprotornis magnus nov. spec, 

 a fine series of skins of a new bird, collected by bim in 

 the year 1869 on the island of Mefoor (Noemfoor) and on 

 the island of Soepiori (named by him Soëk) of the Schouten- 

 islands. The series consisted of seven specimens collected 

 in January and February on Mefoor and eleven specimens 

 collected in March on Soepiori. 



In 1871 Schlegel l ) described the bird under the name 

 given by von Rosenberg and stated that this new species 

 was killed on Soëk only. The habitat of the typical M. 

 magnus is consequently Soepiori, notwithstanding von Rosen- 

 berg collected his first specimen, in which he was right to 

 see a new species, on Mefoor. 



We still possess only three specimens from Mefoor, the 

 others seem to have been exchanged. These three specimens 

 have a much shorter tail and also shorter wings than those 

 from Soepiori. The same is the case with the two specimens 

 from Mefoor, mentioned by Salvadori 2 ), and as the seven 



1) Observations zoologiques, IV (1871), Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV, 1873, p. 18. 



2) Om. Pap. II, 1881, p. 459. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXX. 



