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LIST OF A (JOLLECTION OF P^IUDS INFADE IN FOMBOK 

 BY AIIF ALFRED FViyRETT. 



r.Y KitNST iiAiii'Kirr. 



(Will, Xidm 11,1 Lr„„l,„/.- I,;/ .1. Ki-nreU.) 



A FEW mouths after tbe arrival of Mr. Doherty's Loiiibok collcctiou, the Triiig 

 ^[nsonm received also a magnificent collection of birds from Northern Lombok, 

 collected from May to the boginiiing of .Inly. They are, as might be exjiected 

 from an "old hand" in bird-collecting, better looking skins tliau those received 

 from Jlr. Uoherty, whose first collection it was, altiiongh Mr. Everett had i|nitc 

 new men without experience, who had everything to learn — his (dd men, who 

 had been with him to Celebes, Djampea, Kalao, etc., having struck for liighev 

 wages than he was prepared to ])ay. 



In the following j)ages a full list of Everett's ddlection is given. His '' Notes 

 on Lombok " are printed in full, and his notes on tlie birds addfd to the single 

 species. All Everett's notes aie enclosed in quotation marks. The species not 

 known from Lombok liefore have an asterisk. Where the species has been 

 spokrii of in thi^ foregoing article on Ijombnk the page is ipioted. 



Notes on Lomrok. 



"There exists no regular survey of Londmk, Imt one lias I'eci-uHy been 

 commenced liy the I'uteh (invernment, which, since the late expnisicju (if tlie 

 Balinese Rajah, has undertaken the direct administration of the island. Its 

 main geograi)hical fciitnres are. however, sketched in with ajiproximato accuracv. 

 though on a very small scale, in Part I. nf the .\diiiiralty chai-t of tlie western 

 portion of the Indian Archipelago. 



" Lombok,* or Tanah Sasak as it is commonly called liy the natives — Lombok 

 ajiplying only to the place of that name on the eastern shore — is roughly square in 

 form, with a mean length and breadth of about forty miles. It is traversed 

 from west to east by two mountain ranges, of wliich the northern is wholly 

 volcanic, culminating in Kinjani Peak, one of the highest points in tlie Archijudago, 

 whereas the sonthern range is said to be of recent calcareous fonuation, and is 

 of very moderate elevation, probably not attaining oOiid feet at its liigjiest jiortion. 

 The two ranges are sejiarated by an extensive undulating ])lain interspersed wifli 

 some low volcanic hills. The whole of this plain, togetlier with the mountain 

 slopes up to about 2tlOt) feet, is, or has been, under high cultivation, chiefly for rice 

 on tlie irrigation system, so that there is little, if any, of the original vegetation 

 left ; and thus the primitive forests of the two ranges are entindy disconnected 

 with each other, and have been so probably for a very long time, excejit for 

 an abundance of fruit jdantations and jiatches of second growtii scrub. 



" The altitude of Rinjani Peak has been given variously at ]2,4fi(» feet 

 (Adniindty chart, 1SS8) and 11,810 feet (E. A. Directory, 180:?). The summit 

 ajipeavs to lie vouL'hIy some 1 .ViO feet liiglicr than that of any of \\w otlirr of 



' l':ntly oom|iilcil fiom llio K.istcrn .Arrliiiielagn llircctur.v (nl. IS'.O). 



