LAND-BIRDS OF BANDA ISLANDS. 



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For the knowledge that this species or subspecies, and also 

 all the species and subspecies which follow it, are Bandanese, I 

 am indebted to a paper entitled "The Birds of the Banda 

 Islands," by Dr. Hartert, published in 1 Novitates Zoologicae,' 

 vol. vii. pp. 551-554. Where permissible I have, in accordance 

 with the usual practice in ' The Zoologist," preferred binomial to 

 trinomial nomenclature. 



Cuculus intermedius, Vahl. (Oriental Cuckoo). 

 Cuculus intermedins, Vahl., Skriv. af Natuur, Selsk. iv. p. 58 

 (1797). 



Eastern Siberia, Japan, China, Formosa, India, Assam, Pegu, 

 Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Burma, Sumatra, Java, 

 Celebes, Great Banda, Batchian, Morty, Flores, Timor, Dama* 

 (Banda Islands), New Guinea, North and North-east Australia, 

 New Britain, Pelew Islands, Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan. 



Food. — Insects and fruit. The egg is known and has been 

 described.! 



EUDYNAMIS CYANOCEPHALA Sllbsp. EVERETTI, Hart. 



Eudynamis cyanocephala everetti, Hart., Nov. Zool. vii. p. 231. 

 Buru, Great Banda, Ke Islands, Timor, Alor, Sumba, ? New 

 Guinea. 



A small form of E. cyanocephala (the Koel), the food of which 

 consists of insects and fruit. 



Astur polionotus, Salvad. (Hoary-backed Goshawk). 

 Astnr polionotus, Salvador!, Mem. Accad. Torino, xl. p. 19 

 (1889). 



Timor Laut, Dama (Banda Sea), Great Banda. 



Megapodius duperreyi, Less. & Garn. (Scrub Fowl). 



Megapodiits duperreyii, Less. & Garn., Bull. Sci. Nat. viii. 

 p. 113 (1826). 



Kangeang Archipelago, Lombok, Flores, Sumba, Komah, 

 Wetter, Dama, Toukang, Besi Islands, Great Banda, Ke Islands, 

 Aru Islands, Salawatti, New Guinea, North, North-east, and 

 North-west Australia, Prince of Wales Island, Booby Islands, 

 Cairncross Island, Scawfell Island (Great Barrier Keef). 



* I follow Herr Riedel's mode of writing this name. 



I Campbell, ' Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,' p. 563, 



