IN TJMOR-LAUT, 



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He admita that the separation is based oa Tery miiiEte differences, 

 which, howeTer^ he betieves will lie found constant " Gcofrot'ua [fimor- 

 lamiiHts}, Q. kei/enst, Salva., simillimus, serl minor et primiirife estimai 

 po^onio externo virest'euti di versus/' On comparing the Timor-laut 

 hinh with lid specimens in the British Museum determined by Count 

 Salvadori, tiie case elamis as follows: — Timor-laut skins vary from 

 210-2yO millim,, whiiu 0. keyemiif (Salv.) ranjios from 235-255 niillira. 

 Length of wing in the former 1G5-170 millim., and in (/. /ccifetms 

 (Salv.) 175-1H5 millim. The tail is shorter in 0\ tiinmJaoeusifi than in 

 Q. keyntsis ; while the tarsus agrees in Iwth. In Tiraor-lant siieci- 

 mens the Gxtenial web of the outermost primary, where in the ujjper 

 portioo the colour is blue, and in the lower ffrrtm, exactly agreea 

 with a specimen from Ke, of the Chailrttgef collection, detemimed as 

 O, ket/aisis by Salvadori. Botli these are males. A female from K6 has 

 the same region of this feather blue throughout its length; while a 

 femate from Timor-laut hua a very narrow yellowish edge to the green- 

 blue margin of the primary. A female obtained by the ChaUemjer natu- 

 rah'stft, also determinetl by Salvadori as G. kttjrHsis, isj identical in colo- 

 ration, while, lastly, the colour of the under surfaces of the wings can 

 scarcely be detected to differ. It would ap|>Kir, tlierefore, so far aa the 

 skins from Timor-Ian t and K6, in the British Museum and in my own 

 colloction, afford niiittrjal for foi-miiig an opinion, that these differential 

 characters will not be found to have the constancy that Dr, Meyer has 

 expected. The wing measurements certainly are less in Timor-hiut 

 specimens. It is probable that the differences in coloration are duo 

 to age only, and are not suflicient to separate the K6 from the Teaimber 

 birds. [H. 0. F.] 



11. Eci^ECTtrs BiEDELi, Meyer, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 917. Sdater, loc, cit. 

 PI. XXVI. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer has accurately described the female of this fine 

 spedes. 



AH the green skins are marked " $ and all the red " $ The male 

 not yet having beeu des«irit)ed, I give short diagnoses of both sexes. 

 Lxtf. viritlis, capiti' clartore, ncbcaudatihus Jinvimnte tiudus; 

 alarihus et h^jmchoiidriis corcincis ; campterio ahiri ei remit/urn prima- 

 rioram marginibm externis et secundartorum {extm dorso ci>ncolorum) 



flam; recfrice una ufrtufjue exiima in pogonio exterioie cxnileo natato ; 

 rostro superiore rtihro, apice fluvicante ; in/eriore nitjro : long, tota 



$ . Eubrv piuiicm, capiie et corpore subtus coecineis ; crisso flaw; camp' 



terio ahri et remiyum primnriomm marginibm externis cxruieis; cattda 

 supra ad basin viridi in rubrum tninsf-UHte, ad apicem fate flava^ mbim 

 flam ad hisiji nitjriiXtnte ; rostrct nigro; crasiitie paulo minorc. 

 JIaL iBsuIus Teaimlierensea. 



Of the four skins in the present collection, two males (green) are from 

 Xiarat, and one male and one female from Luttn:. 



As I have remarked (P. S. 181<a, p. 49), there can l3e no longer any doubt 

 that Edrcim ritde/i is quite a diiitijict si>ecies of the genus, characterised 

 by the broad well-define<l yellow tail-end of the male, and by the absence 

 of the blue on the t«ck of the neck and on the belly in the female. 

 Neglecting A", nesfcrwanni and Edecim c&melio, of which we do not know 



