152 Count Salvadori on some Papuan , 
the Turin Museum, and they both belong to Cy clop sit tacus 
diophthalmus, and not to C. aruensis, which is the southern 
representative form, confined to South New Guinea and the 
Aru Islands. 
Edoliisoma remotum, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 32. 
The male specimen mentioned by Dr. Nehrkorn, which 
has been presented to the Turin Museum, cannot possibly 
be attributed to E. remotum , Sharpe, from the far-distant 
New Ireland group, having the throat and cheeks shining 
black; it is very much like the male of E. meyeri , Salvad., from 
Mysori in Geelvink Bay, from which it scarcely differs, being 
only a little lighter; but I feel quite confident that when the 
female of the Waigiou bird is found, it will turn out to 
differ from the female of E. meyeri much more than the 
males of the two allied species do. In the genus Edoliisoma 
the females of allied species constantly differ, inter se, much 
more than the fully adult males. 
Hermotimia auriceps, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 33. 
The single female of this species mentioned by Dr. Nehr¬ 
korn is rightly identified, but it has been included, by 
mistake, among the birds from Waigiou, while, as shown by 
the original label, it is from Galela (Helmaheira). H. auri¬ 
ceps is confined to the Halmaheira group, and has never been 
found out of it. 
Calornis obscura, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 33. 
Dr. Nehrkorn mentions three specimens from Waigiou, 
and he has already noticed them as being so different from 
one another that he could scarcely recognize them as be¬ 
longing to the same species. I have been able to examine 
one of them, an adult bird, and I think that it belongs to 
C. cantoroides. 
Corvus validissimus, Nehrkorn, ibid. p. 34. 
I have not been able to inspect the specimen mentioned 
by Dr. Nehrkorn, which is now in the Berlin Museum; but 
knowing that C. validissimus is confined to the Halmaheira 
group, I suspected that the specimen alluded to from Waigiou 
