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Show 82 COUNT T. SALVADORI O N T H E [Jan. 15, [314. Male: eyes black. 312. Female: eyes black; stomach had insects.-J". Mi] Two specimens-one " male " (No. 314) not fully adult, with the green cap mixed with blue, and one " female" (No. 312). 7. DlCiEUM VULNERATUM, Wall. Dicaum vulneratum, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 32, note (Ceram ; type examined). [No. 315. Female : eves brown ; stomach had insects and seeds. Small bird.- J. Mi] This sex has not yet been described. Fern. Superne cinereo-fusca, alis et cauda obscurioribus, paullum nitentibus ; pileo prcesertim frontem versus brunneo tincto; supracaudalibus rubris; inferne cinerea; gastrceo medio gula, colli antici, pectoris abdominisque parte media et albis ; rostro et pedibus fuscis. 8. BUDYTES VIRIDIS (Gm.). [305. Male : eyes brown ; legs and bill black ; stomach had insects. 310. Female : eyes brown. 319. Male : eyes brown ; stomach had insects.-J. Mi] Three specimens-one " male " (No. 305) and one " female" (No. 310) scarcely different, and one "male" (No. 319) with the underparts of a paler yellow, and with the back rather greyish. 9. MACROPYGIA AMBOINENSIS (Linn.). [301. Male: eyes red; feet red; bill black; fruit in stomach. 320. Female : eyes orange ; stomach had seeds ; legs red.-/. Mi] Two specimens-one fully adult "male" (No. 301), and one " female" (No. 320). The female has the cap of a uniform cinnamon colour, the breast more reddish than the male, and no green or purplish reflections on the nape, which is finely mottled with dark brown and reddish fulvous. 10. CHARADRIUS FULVUS (Gm.). [No. 317. Male: eyes hazel; stomach contained worms and land-shells.-J. Mi] 1 1. EuDROMIAS VEREDUS (Gould). Charadrius veredus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 38 ; id. B. Austr. vi. pl. 14. Eudromias veredus, Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 209, pl. vi. [No. 318. Male: eyes hazel; stomach contained worms and land-shells.-/. Mi] 12. ^EGIALITIS GEOFFROYI (Wagl.). Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagl. Syst. Av. gen. Charadrius, sp. 19 (1827). AHyialitis geoffroyi, Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 378, pl. xi. [No. 311. Male : eyes brown.-J. Mi] |