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thougli the season should Iiave been right, and the country was beautiful — fine 

 forest of enormous trees, the largest I have seen in the East, I think. Of tiie birds 

 about one-half are from low country, and the other half from the mountains, mostly 

 from a place named Gitgit, from 20U0 to 4000 feet." With regard to the birds 

 collected in Bali, he writes : " I imagine that the Balinese fauna is very much 

 smaller than the Javanese ; many whole genera of conspicuous forms, which one 

 cannot easily overlook, not extending so far East. The problem regarding Bali is, 

 of course, how many forms of the Timor group extend so for West, and whether 

 these forms are the remains of an original fauna of Australian affinities, or are merely 

 immigrants from Lombok, etc. The ancient stratified rocks of Southern Lombok 

 seem to be continued across the large table-topped island of Penida, in Lombok 

 Straits, to the peninsula of Badong, iu S.E. Bali, where cockatoos are found, though 

 not commonly. Besides the Balinese birds sent, I iilso shot Corrm {Corona) 

 macrorhyrir-hus and the magnificent Aquila {Neopm) mulrvjensis, but did not thinlc 

 them worth sending. Of a Motacilla we got night females (two sent), but never 

 a male.'''' 



The following list is the first list of Bali birds ever i)ablished, so far as I know, 

 as Wallace stayed in the island not more than two days, and collected there only a 

 few birds.* Tliis list is tlierefore particularly interesting, and it is sufficiently large 

 to allow some comparison with the Lombok list, which will follow thereafter. 



Tlie very careful notes on the colour of the eyes, bill, feet, etc., of the birds have 

 in nearly every case been copied verbatim, and added iu signs of quotation. 



From all we can see, the " sexing" is done with the greatest care. 



The B;di collection was brought together in March and Aj)ril. 



1. Geocichla rubecula Gould. 



c? ad. Bali, low country. " Eyes deep nmber ; bill Mack ; feet pale brownish 

 horn-colour ; claws dark brown " (W. Doherty). S juv. in first plumage, but wing- 

 qnills and rectrices evidently already moulted. Top of the head and bac'.k brown, with 

 rusty shaft-stripes ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform brown ; chin and U])per 

 throat pale rusty ; feathers of the chest, breast, and abdomen pale rusty rufous, with 

 bases and tips blackish ; under tail-coverts white, blackish at base. 



Geocichla rubecula Gould has hitherto only been known i'rom Java.. It dift'ers 

 from G. citrina of Lidia in being smaller (wing of the Bali skin 110 mm.), of a 

 darker grey above, of a very much deei)er rufous on the head and below. Perhaps 

 the white patch on tlie upper wing-coverts is also larger. The male from Bali is like 



* I am tnuoh obliged to Mr. Wallace, who most kinJly gave me tlie following list of the binls collected 

 by him in Bali on June lath and Uth, ISofi, which I publish here, using his own namci:. They are : 

 CiipsyolitiH ti7iiorn>is, Orinlux /uirsfii'ldi, Meffnlacmu ro.^yyi. ChriisonntHH ti[/it, Stnrilopastor jiilla. J'loi't'iis 

 llypoxanlkus, Mnnin pintrtiilariii, Plilolis llmbatii. 



A skin of the latter species from the Gould collection h.<is been enumerated in the Cataloi/iu- of Binh, 

 IS. p. 237, as collected in liali by Jlr. Walhioc, Init a.s this author (_Malai/ Arrhipiiaijo, I. p. 203) expressly 

 s.iys that .Viliji/iai/iilae were not found iu Bali, I supposed an error with regard to the skin in the Museum, 

 and wrote to Mr. Wallace for an e.\|)lanation. and this is what he most kindly answered me : "I am very 

 glad you wrote to me about the I'Lilolis limliatu, because 1 seem myself to have overlooked the fact that I 

 found it in Bali. The reason must be, 1 think, that I only obtained one specimen there, and by some 

 mist.ake (jf my agent it got misplaced from my priv.ate collection (which was afterwards placed in the 

 British Museum), and was bought by Mr. Gouki. 1 find iu my original notes that Ptilotis limhata was 

 obtained by me both in Bali aud Lombok, and specimens from both localities should have been kept iu my 

 private collection. When 1 came home, not finding the species aiuong my skins from Bali, I must have 

 forgotten the fact, and thus made the mistake you refer to in my Mnlnij Aivhipilago." 



