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Show 86 COUNT T. SALVADORI ON THE [Jan. 15, 1. PANDION LEUCOCEPHALUS, Gould. Pandion leucocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 138 ; id. B. Austr. i. pl. 6 (1848); Sharpe, Cat. Acciptr. p. 451 (1874). [No. 268. Male: eyes yellow; legs whitish ; bill black; stomach contained fish. Shot by Chauner; no others were seen. Shot far in the bush from the shore.-/. M-] 2. GEOFFROYUS KEYENSIS, Schleg. Psittacus capistratus, G. R. Gr. (nee Bechst.), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 183 ( $ ), Ke Islands (type examined). Eclectus personatus (part.), Schleg. Ned Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 332 (A. grande forme (partim), p. 333) (1866); id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 18 (partim) (1875). Pionias rhodops (part.), Finsch, Die Papag. ii. pp. 388, 955 (1868). Geoffroyus keyensis, Schleg. MS. (Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 956) Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29. sp. 37 (1877). [No. 271. Male ; 269, 270. Females : eyes white ; upper mandible red in the male, both black in the females ; stomach contained seeds and fruit.-/. Mi] Three specimens-a young "male" (No. 271) in transitional plumage, an adult "female" (No. 270) with the head pale brown olive, and a not fully adult "female" (No. 269) with the head conspicuously tinged with green. 3. Eos RUBRA (Gm.) Domicella rubra, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 786 (1868). Psittacus (Eos) bernsteinii, Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. v. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 145 (1863), Ke Islands. Lorius sejuamatus, Schleg. (nee Bodd.), Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 124. no. 1, 2 (1864) (types examined). Domicella schlegelii, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 792 (1868), Ke Islands (type examined). [No. 272. Male; 273. Female: eyes light red ; bill dull red; legs black ; stomach contained seeds with some insects. Only two were shot. The Professor has one of the same species alive on board, bought at Ke Doulan. No. 324. Female: eyes brown; legs black; bill rose-coloured. This bird was purchased alive at Ke Doulan, Ke Islands, and kept till today (Oct. 12, 1874) on board, and was killed on account of the noise it made.-/. Mi] Three specimens-one "male" (No. 272) and one "female" (No. 273) fully adult and alike, and a " female" (No. 324) not fully adult, with some of the feathers of the underparts edged with blue and turning to greenish in the hidden part. The Domicella schlegelii, Finsch, I. c. (= Lorius squamatus, Schleg.), was established on some young birds, which have the feathers of the underparts edged with blue ; the same thing happens in the young of E. riciniata and of E. cyanogenys. |