( 570 ) 



Iv!. Carpophaga rosacea (Tcmm.). 



Satonda, near Tambora, Sarabawa, May 1896. " Eye ibirk crimson ; beak dark 

 grey, dark red at base ; feet purple-red." 



This seems to be the most western locality hitherto known of ('. rosacea. 



13. Caloenas nicobarica (L.). 



This species has hitherto not been fonud in the Timor groui) of islands, but 

 Mr. Doherty obtained three young birds on the island of Satonda. 



14. Turnix powelli Gnillemard. 



Three males and one female from Satonda. The males agree very well with 

 the figure on Plate XXIX. and the descrijitinn given on p. 511 of P. Zool. Soc. 

 Land. 1885. They look much like T. rrifdatus Wall, of Celebes, but are dis- 

 tingm'shed liy the absence of rnt'ous below, the abdnmon being white in the middle, 

 barred on the sides, vent and under tail-coverts very pale buff, with or without 

 distinct black bars. The nnddle line on the crown is narrow and ill-defined. The 

 ferrmle differs from the male, having the throat black in the middle. I do not 

 understand Dr. Gnillemard saying that the " bl.ack stripe on the throat of the male 

 bird is considerably more restricted " than in T. ntfilntus. First of all he evidently 

 mixes np the sexes, t\ie female only having a black throat, not the male, while the 

 sexes are nearly alike in T. rufilatus. The female of T. rujilatus differs from its 

 male in being larger, with a longer wing, in the forehead being black, the throat 

 more wliitish ; but the scapulars are in no way more mixed with rust-colour than 

 in the male. 



The black throat of the female of T. powelli removes this species more from 

 T. rufilafiia, and suggests a closer relationship to T. taigoor than T. rujilatus shows. 



" (?. Iris pale yellow ; beak pale greenish ochreous, tip and culmen much 

 darker ; feet brighter greenish ochreous, claws pale reddish. ¥ . Iris yellowish 

 white ; beak all over greenish yellow, not j)artly blackish as in i." 



VI I.- LIST OF THE BIRDS COLLECTED IN SUMBA. 



Few and small are the publications about the island of Sumba. In 1881 Dr. 

 A. i). Meyer ]iui)lished a list of forty species of Sumba birds in the Verhandl. der k. 

 k. zoolog. botan. (ieselhchaft in Wien, pp. 759 — 767. Of these only two, viz. Ninox 

 rudolfi and Graucalus siimbensis, were described as new species, Tanygnnt/ius 

 megalorhi/nckus var. sxmbensis as a new subspecies. In 1892 Dr. J. Blittikofer 

 enumerated, in Note,H Leyden Mus. Xl\. })p. 196—204, thirty-two species, of 

 which only eight were the same as those named by Dr. Meyer, and one a new 

 species, viz. Dicaeum wilhelminae. In the same year the latter author described 

 {Notes Leyden Mus. XIV. p. 267) the Geoffroyus which at first be had called 

 G. jukesii as G. tjindanae sp. nov. Quite recently Biittikofer described a duck 

 from Sumba under the name of Anas salvadorii {Notes Leyden Mus. XVI II. 

 p. 59). The number of species thus known from Sumba was sixty-five, of which 

 si.x, viz. Ninox rudolfi, Graucalus sumbensis, Dicaeum wilhelminae, Tanygnathus 

 megalorhyncliKs sumben.fis, Geoffroyus tjindanae, and Anas salcadorii, had received 

 their own names. 



