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Show 1878.] BIRDS OF TERNATE, AMBOYNA, ETC. 85 stomach contained insects. In flocks on trees near the shore.- J. Mi] The sexes are exactly alike. To this species have been referred also specimens from Ternate and Bouru ; but those from Ternate agree better with Z. intermedia, Wall., from Celebes; and one specimen from Bouru in the British Museum, collected by Wallace, belongs to a species not yet described. 7. CARPOPHAGA CONCINNA, Wall. Carpophaga chalybura, G. R. Gr. (nee Bp.), P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 187, 196 (Aru). "Carpophaga chalybeo, Bp." (errore), Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 132. sp. 226 (Aru). Carpophaga concinna, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 383. no. 52, Matabello Island, Aru (a small island west of) (type examined) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 200. no. 39 (1876). Carpophaga roseinucha, part., Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 197(1865). [No. 296. Female. This bird was sent on board alive as a present to the Professor.-J. Mi] IV. Birds from the Ke Lslands. [The ship arrived at Ke Doulan, Ke Islands, on the morning of the 25th September, 1874, and left on the morning of the 26th September.-J. Mi] The birds from K e Islands are 25, representing 14 species; they have been all collected at the little island named Dulan1. The Ke Islands were quite unknown to naturalists before Wallace made a short stay there of six days in January 1857. He only obtained thirteen species in all2, which were catalogued, together with those from the Aru Islands, by Mr. G. R. Gray3. Von Rosenberg-made a longer stay on the K e Islands, and collected there rather extensively ; but no complete catalogue of his collection has been published. He gave an account of his visit to the K e Islands, and of some of the birds collected there by him, in his ' Reis naar de zuidoostereilanden gedaan en 1865,' pp. 67-83. Dr. Beccari in 1873 made a rather large collection of birds in the K e Islands. Of this some of the new species have been already described by me4; but I propose to give a complete account of it as soon as m y occupations permit. ] Cosmos di Guido Cora, ii. tav. ii. (1874). 2 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Nist. (2), xx. p. 473 (1857). 3 P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 169-198. 4 " Nuove specie di uccelli delle Isole Aru e Kei, raccolte da Odoardo Beccari," Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vi. pp. 73-80 (1874); ' Altre nuove specie di uccelli raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Signor L. M . D'Albertis e nelle Isole Aru e Kei dal Dott. O. Beccari," op. cit. vi. pp. 308-314; " Descrizione di sei nuove specie di uccelli delle Moluche, delle Kei e delle Isole Aru," op. cit. vii. pp. 983-990 (1875). |