CRINIGER CHLORIS, Finsch.
Moluccan Bulbul.
Criniger flavicaudtts, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1860, p. 311 (nee B p .)fPN
Criniger simplex, Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 350 (nee Temm.).
Trichophorus simplex, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 168 (1865).
Criniger chbris, Finsch, Jo u rn , fiir O ra. 1867, p. 36— Gray, H a n d -lb t Birds, i. p. 274, no 4021 (1869) -S a lv a d
Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 777 (1875), xvi. p. 18&;(M80)— Sharpe, Cat. Birds in B rit. Mus. vi.'
p. 85 (1881). Salvad. Orn. Papuasia e deUe Molucche, ii. p . 376 (1881)— GnUlemard, P ro c Zool
boc. 1885, p. 572.
S p e c im e n s of this species were sent by Mr. Wallace from the islands o f Batchian and Halmahera or Gilolo
and were identified by the late Mr. G. R. Gray as Criniger flamcaudus o f Bonaparte, which is a Ceram
species.
Mr. Wallace, in 1862, perceiving Mr. Gray's mistake, described the species under the name of Criniger
simplex; but this name could not be used, as there was already an African species, described by Tcmminck
1 H i I B tberef°re pr°p0Sed tl,e ”ame of a c/,/0™ for B «Peoie» 1 place o f that given
by Mr. Wallace He described a specimen in the Leiden -Museum from Halmahdra, collected bv
Ur. Forsten, and Dr. Beccari procured the species botli in this island and in Batchian, as Mr. Wallace had
E r e a d y done before him. The latter gentleman likewise records its occurrence in Morotai or Morty Island •
hut no specimen from this island was in his collection, and the locality requires confirmation. Dr. Guillemard’
who obtained a large series o f specimens in Batchian, says that the iris was " red-brown, the bill bluish green
with lighter edges, and the feet slate-colour.”
The following description is copied from the British Museum ‘ Catalogue o f Birds ’
" Adult female (type o f C. simplex). General colour above dull olive-yellow, the wiog-corerts like the back •
quills brown, externally olive-yellow like the back, both the greater, coverts and the primaries narrowly edged’
brigh er yellow; tail-featbers dark olive-yellow, with a narrow margin o f rather brighter yellow; ear-
coverts and sides o f face dark olive-yellow, the fore part of the cheeks more dusky, the lores ashy brown I
throat bright yellow, as also the centre o f the body and abdomen ; chest and sides o f the body olive, the former
with indistinct sharp lines o f bright yellow ; thighs and under tail-coverts olive with yellow edges • under
w.ng-coierts and ax.llanes bright yellow; quills brown below, yellow along the edge o f the inner web-
I H U H E B B Pak ! 9 lead-colour I iris dark ’ H H Total eulmen 0-95, wiug 3 ’9o, tail 3-6, tarsus 0 7 5 . length 8-6 inches
■ B Si,"ilarin colourto the Total length 8-3 inches, eulmen 0-9, wing 4 tail 3-4
tarsus 0 7 5 . 6 ’
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