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claw, and covered with seven or eiglit strongly marked scnfelhic. AVin" longer 

 than tail. Plumage soft and full, as in /osterops. Eye surrounded by a narrow rino- 

 of white feathers. Head with a full crest. Coloration above olive, below yellow : 

 crested top of head of different colour, i.e. blacki.<h brown with white streaks. 

 Type : Lophozosterops dohertyi. 



*ln. Lophozosterops dohertyi sji. nov. 



$ ad. Top of head blackish brown, each feather with a long, narrow, guttate 

 white spot near the shaft towards the tip, these spots becoming brownish and 

 obsolete on the hinder part of the crown. Lores black. Eyes surrounded with a 

 narrow white ring of feathers. Behind the eyes an elongate yellowish spot. Ear- 

 coverts olive. Rest of npper surface, including wiug-coverts, greyish olive. "VVing- 

 quills blackish brown, outwardly margined narrowly with olive-green, inwardlv 

 broadly with yellowish white. Entire under surface sulj)liur-yellow, jjaler on throat. 

 Under wing-coverts )x»llowish white. "Iris dark brown ; beak black; feet yellowish 

 slate-colour." Total length about 120 mm.; wing 62 — 65 mm.; tail about 60; 

 tarsus 17 — 18 ; cnlmen 14 mm. 



S like male, but wing apparently 2 or 3 mm. shorter. 



Hah. Volcano of Tambora, 1000 to 3000 feet high. 



*l''i. Mirafra horsfieldi parva (Swinli.;. 



i ad. Tambora, low country. Hardly distinguishable from some Australian 

 M. hoi-iijleldi, and also very close to M.javanica, so that it is not easy to say, in my 

 opinion, to which of these forms it is closer allied. " Iris light brown ; feet pale 

 reddish ; maxilla blackish ; mandible dull ochreous." Wing 08 ; tail 46 ; tarsus 20 ; 

 cukuen 13. 



Only known from Flores. 



•IT. Anthus rufalus medius (Wall.). 

 Lowlands of Bima and Tambora and hills at 3000 feet. All alike in colour. 

 " Iris brown ; feet dull ochreous ; maxilla dark brown; mandible pale ochreous.'" 



"l^i. Munia molucca propinqua Sharpe. 



Two malea from Bima have a disliiK^ jiatch of wliite, unbarred, on the sides of the 

 breast, by this as well as geographically belonging to the subs])ecies />i-opinyua, to 

 which the specimens from Kalao must iirobably also be considered to belong {antea, 

 p. 168). 



Some young birds wore shot at Tambora. 



!'■'. Artamus leucogaster (Valenc). 

 Low country of Tambora and Bima. 



20. Calornis minor \i\>. 

 Bima, low country. 



21. Eulabes veneratus (Bp.). 

 Tambora, from the low country uji to 30i)0 feet. 

 " Iris dark brown." Specimens from Flores are totallv alike. 



