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beautiful pearly white, considerably pointed at the smaller end ; their medium length is cue inch and 
flVe — g a specimen obtained in N.E. Australia he found the 
stomach nltingin the hollow Eucalyptus boughs on the Rich- 
, They make bo nest, but lay their eggs on the dust formed by decayed wood ; 
“"“unfrequentlv they fight with and dispossess the Dacelo gigas, and 1 have seen them take tie 
/this bhd and throw them out of the nest. The eggs are two or three m number, of a dull 
young of this be being oval and pointed, others almost 
white, rather glossy, and sometimes variable m ioim, some oeiug v 
round.” 
This species occurs on Lord Howe’s Island, where there is a perceptible blending o A 
and New-Zealand forms. It also abounds in some parts of New Guinea ; - M e m of 
opinion that the birds which spend the summer in Australia pass on to the southern 
Guinea for the winter. _ • c 0 n e cted by Mr. A. R. Wallace and others in the 
T Via vp examined a large series oi specimens y b -q -i 
p , f j.u p m ao*nificent collection of cabinet skins m the B11tiR.l1 
Malay Archipelago and now forming pait of t c » , e , i l r i Timor 
Museum. There are specimens from Penang, Malacca, Labuan, Celebes, the Sula .Islands^ ^Timor, 
Lombock, Flores, Gilolo, Matabello Island, Bouru, Ceram, and Doiey. , s a in c M . 
, • „ th „ natch of blue on the throat of a brighter colour. The brightest oi 
Australian birds in ha g P ^ Islands . Another specimen from the same locality 
them all is an a u in having ^ the colours muc h duller, and instead of the throat-patch 
( „ 7 p^L”mere wash of the prevailing greenish colour, with just the faintest tinge of nuhgo 
//? des of the throat. In this bird the hill is reddish yellow with a brownish ridge and tip. 
°" “e/ s e/il of the yonng (obtained by Mr. Wallace from Matabello Island) differs in 
havino the general plumage lighter, with a small patch of purple muted with grey on the throat 
eaTL/her having a central streak of cobalt-blue. In this example the feathers o the head and 
shoulders are narrowly, and those of the breast broadly, margined with grey; bill blackish blow , 
the outer edge of lower mandible dull yellow. 
Eunjstomus orientalis, Vig. & Horsf., although generally regarded as merely a local race, appeal 
to me to be a n„„d species, readily distinguishable from E. pacific™ by its brighter plumage and 
decTdel daAerhead'and neck; but after carefully comparing Mr. Wallace's Javan specimen of 
F manicottis Wagl., with the former, I can find nothing to justify their separation. 
' Eurystmm cramrostm, Sclater, is appreciably larger and brighter than E. «««***» 1 
the colouring is the same, and its bill is conspicuously broader and more robust. Ibis species, 
an Coinnum stout) and New Guinea, is said to have dark red eyes, 
comes from So o g P WaU ace from Batchian), is a very distinct species, 
V b/ Z it ZZ'Z and uniform dark blue plumage. The young of this Roller baa similar 
ptomfg/ to the adult but the blue is of a duller hue, and the hill is blackish brown instead of being 
° range ‘ * Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vol. vii. p. 46. 
