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under tail-coverts wide, broad, and exteiulinn; as far as two centimetres from the 

 end of the tail. In front and behind the eye is a triangnlar bare spot, black 

 in the skins. The legs and feet are very strong and short, the hind toe well 

 developed, middle toe comparatively short. Lower part of tibia bare. Tarso- 

 metatarsns anteriorly with seven or eight strongly marked large scales, 

 posteriorly with less prominent tliongli distinct scales. Toes strongly scaled. 



Cnlmen 38—41, wings S 125, iS 123— li.j, tail 135-140, tarsus about 

 32 — 35, middle toe with claw 31 — 33, hind toe with claw 19 — 2n mm. 



On the wing appears to be a bony protuberance below the bend and some 

 obstacle on the wing, iu the place of tlie thumb, reminding one of tlie well- 

 developed claws of the index and pollex in the young Opisthocomus, and in 

 other Rails. 



Our three birds are fully adult. It is to be hoped that a specimen in spirit 

 may soon reach a European museum. 



PI. II. : Leucopsar rothschildi and Gracupica tertia. 



Leiwopsar rothschikli has been described by Mr. Stresemann in 13x11. B.O. 

 Club xxxi. p. 4 (28. x. 1912), from a single specimen shot by himself on the 

 island of Bali. Apart from the interest attached to every discovery of an 

 entirely new species and genus of birds, this remarkable Starling, with its long, 

 pendent occipital crest, is apparently the only distinct species inhabiting — as far 

 as our present knowledge goes — the island of Bali alone. All the other forms 

 found on Bali are either the same as those occurring on Java, or closely allied 

 subspecies ; or, on the other hand, found also on Lombok, or Lombok and other 

 islands. 



Gracupica tertia has been named by myself iu JSoe. Zoo/, iii. p. 547, 1896, 

 from specimens collected on Bali by the late William Doherty. The same 

 distinct species was afterwards also found on the island of Lombok by the late 

 Alfred Everett (cf. Sov. Zool. iii. p. 594). 



More about Leucopsar roth.-ichihli and Gracupica tertia will be said in au 

 account of the birds of Bali by Mr. E. Stresemann, which will be published in 

 iVof. Zool. XX., 1913. For some preliminary remarks on the zoogeographical 

 relations of Bali and Lombok see Bull. B.O. Club of the November meeting, 

 1912. 



