A NATUliALIST'S WANDEItJNQS 



referred to, have the tips of tb© lemiges quite as brt3«d as in those from 

 Tiiuor-laut, }ti a Loftjbock specimen (" t'S Stevens ") the tipBofff^Mho 

 feathers are white ; a Batanta ftud a Ncv -Holland s|x?cimeii bave no white 

 tips at all ; one from, Halmalieim aiid one from Burn (both from Mr. 

 "Wallace's collection) eieept in odo feather, have no white on the remiges ; 

 yet all of tbera have been determined to be, and are undoubtedly A* 

 leuco(/nshr (ViiL) [11. O. F.] 



31. DiCRURopsia BiiAcTEATPs, Gould, ^ 



92, pACHYCEraALA ARCTIT0BQUI8, Solater, !oc, cit, PI. XIII. 

 p. kvhirevsis^ Sleyor, op, sup. cit. 

 P. rkikUt^ Meyer, op. eup. cit. 



iSnpm cinerm, aUs miulaque nitjrts n'nereo Itmbatts, pii&t nnrha d cctpiiis 

 laterihita ni</ris ; stihtua a/!ta, tonpti' Jtif/ulari an^fttsio nigro ; mhalarihus 

 et rentujum iitfirtfiuibiis ttiterioribtiHttfbin ; tosti'tt el jNrdi'has tiixfn's : htty. 

 tt'tti b'b, tif&; , H'Of cttwla' 2 '2, Fern. Supra /mm, in pilfo ru/e^mi i 

 alia tiiyn'K ej-im ru/u fimfntt's ; mfftm a(ba, t4>soleie uit/ro nfriata, 



JJah. Ijarat, ins, Tenimberensem. 



Dr. Meyer, in the jmper referred to, Ime described two new speeies of 

 Puchyn phdht, whose iiaiuea are given above as synonyms. If he ie correct 

 in his determiuatious we bave the curious fact that, uotwithBtanding my 

 more thorough examinafion of a wider field, which includetl the region 

 "whence ho obtained his birds, tbe wboki series obtained by me contained 



rimens sexod ?}; while those wiio made the collection examined by 

 Meyer, obtained in Babhar (an island at no great distance to the 

 W. of Yamdena) ffmnks of /*. urcfitorqiitsi, and evidently uo mtth's (so 

 recogniBod by Dr. Meyer), and females of P. kthi'mtsm (Jleyer), with- 

 out one of ita maks. I daily aaw the collections made in Timor-laut by 

 the Amboinese hunters making this colleetion, and 1 feel confident that 

 no species of f«rAt//-^7>A/ifa— one of the groups I ajn particularly in- 

 torested in — was obtained by tbem which was not also in my collection. 

 After coraparinq Dr. Mtjyer's descriptions with tbe long Kerios I have 

 of this bird, nearly all of which Dr. Sclator had before him when writing 

 hiB original de^cri]itioR, and which contains birtls io almost every stage 

 of plumage, from the young bird to the fully aduJi, I have little hesita- 

 tion in affirming that P. arrdtorquis, ( ^ Meyer), from Timor-laut and 

 Babbar, is but tlie irnmatnrt; male, and P. kt^lirettafs (Meyer) tbe nearly 

 fully adult /cwid/e of P. arcfiforquifi, in which the colour of the bird when 

 fully adalt is black; while P. rfedrlii is a still younger /fm'j/# of the 

 e&me species. From this it would seem clear to mo tiiat i*. arrfitorqnis, 

 Scl., occurs in Babbar also, for the examples before Dr. Meyer from that 

 island were young males and immature females, while from Timor-laut 

 he had adult males, immahiro males , Meyer), and still younger 

 females (rinldti, Meyer). [IL O. F.J 

 33. P. FiTBCo-FLAVA, ScLatcr, loc. ait, PLXXYII.; FoHjcs, P. Z. S., 1883, 



pU 688, PI, LIII. 

 Ohs. Similis P. lmcf^*ju&lro, sed torqne angiisto distinguenda. 

 The imlr of these s|>ecieR were obtained in Larat, in tbe first week of 

 Auf:ust 1882. The iris is marked *' reddish brown " iu the male, and 

 "dark brown" in tlio female; the feet " blue-black " in the male, and 

 " lavendcr-pink " in tbe feniale. 



31 DicajPM FULGiDiTM, Sclates*. 



(Figured in Gould's 'Birds of Kew Guinea,' jrwr/ IP.) 



