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do not know, and I should doubt its locality being Lombock. 
Of its habitat, however, Lord Walden is not certain. 
Calornis mysolensis, Gray. Hab. Mysol, Bouru, Ceram, 
Salwatti. From all of these places Wallacian specimens are 
before me. The species, as Lord Walden observes, is scarcely 
separable from C. obscura , but it is rather stouter. The C. 
cantoroides of Mr. G. R. Gray, considered by Mr. Wallace 
to be a good species, is, in my opinion, nothing but C. myso¬ 
lensis before it has quite completed its long tail: none of the 
four specimens before me seems to be full-plumaged. 
Calornis pacifica (Gm.), of which I have an example from 
the Caroline Islands, is nothing but a slightly more metallic 
race of C. mysolensis , with a still stouter bill. 
Calornis metallica. The figure in the f Planches Coloriees J 
suits best the Australian bird. Temminck gives the habitat 
of his species as Timor and Celebes, from neither of which 
places has such a Calornis yet been seen. I therefore unite C. 
purpurascens of Gray to C. metallica, as a pair of birds collected 
at Cape York by the late Mr. Macgillivray agree well with 
TemmincL’s figure. A Goram specimen is also identical. 
At the same time the only difference between C. metallica 
and C. viridescens is the greater amount of purple on the sides 
of the body, a very variable character. 
Calornis amboinensis, Gray. Lord Walden gives its cha¬ 
racters as closely resembling the Australian species, but 
smaller. It is intermediate between that and C. viridescens , 
and has only a little purple gloss on the sides of the body; 
its bill, however, is slightly shorter than either, but the wing 
agrees with some examples of each of the above species; so 
that the smaller size does not go for much. The Ceram bird 
is identical; and I see no reason for separating either from 
C. viridescens. 
Calornis viridescens, Gray. I cannot find any difference 
between examples collected by Mr. Wallace in the following 
localities—Sula Island (1), Gilolo (2), Ternate (1), Mata- 
bello (2), N. Ceram (1), Aru Islands (4). 
Calornis gularis. The type specimen, from Mysol, is now 
lying before me; and I must pronounce this, contrary to Lord 
