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streaks, the female in full green plumage, like the first-men¬ 
tioned male. 
I have compared these Sibu birds with a large series from 
Sarawak (Wallace), Malacca (Wallace), E. Java (Wallace), 
and Tenasserim (Packman), and I find them all identical. 
The Philippine bird is duller and more bronzy, with a slightly 
stronger bill, as pointed out by Count Salvadori; but the slight 
purplish violet shade mentioned by him is not a character, as it 
exists in Malaccan skins sometimes. The Philippine species 
is C. panayensis (Scop.), and measures 4T5 inches in the 
wing, which is about the size of C. chalybea. 
C. tytleri, from the Andamans and Nicobars, must be kept 
distinct: it is dull-coloured, like the Philippine species, but 
very much larger : wing 4*5 inches. Lord Walden considers 
it to be the same as continental examples of C. affinis (Ibis, 
1874, p. 145). I have four specimens before me from the 
Islands of the Bay of Bengal; and I cannot consider them 
quite the same as two Tenasserim birds, which, in tint of green 
and in size, agree with Malaccan ones. C. tytleri, however, is 
not a very strongly marked species. [ Cf . also Lord Walden's 
recent observations (Ibis, 1871, p. 461).] 
The following remarks apply to Lord Walden's synopsis 
of the genus Calornis (Tr. Z. S. viii. pp. 79, 81), where the 
best review of the genus is to be found :— 
C. neglecta, Walden, l. c.. Hab. Celebes and Sula Islands. 
The single Celebean specimen (Meyer) in the Museum not 
being quite full-plumaged, I cannot speak with certainty as 
to its complete identity with the Sula-Island bird; but the 
shade of green seems darker in the latter. Lord Walden, 
however, who has had better series to examine than I have, 
says they are the same. The long tail (4*4 inches) will dis¬ 
tinguish this species from C. chalybea, which it approaches 
in colour; it measures nearly an inch more than in the latter 
bird, whose tail does not seem to exceed 3*5 inches. 
Calornis obscura, Forst. A very dull green species, of 
which the Museum has a series of specimens from Batchian, 
Gilolo, and Morty, all collected by Mr. Wallace. 
Calornis crassirostris, Walden, l K c. p. 80. This species I 
