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The ornitholog}' of Sambawa has hitherto onl.v very imi)erfectly been kuowu. 

 The Leyden Museum possesses some birds from there, collected iu the first half of 

 this century by Forsten, near Bima, and a few of them were described long ago by 

 Bouajiiirte {Chibia bimacnsis, TrichoglosstisJ'orsteni). 



Tlie naturalists of the yacht Murqucsa landed on the north coast, wishing to 

 ascend the mountain of Tambora, but they did not succeed, and collected only a few 

 days on the island. Dr. Guillemard nevertheless gave a list of the species of birds 

 obtained in the ProceedinyH of the Zoolotjicnl Society of London for 1885, enumer- 

 ating thirty-eight species. 



Nearly all of these liave also been met with by Doherty, who sent sixty-live 

 species, adding no less than thirt3'-four species to the Sambawa list, of which one 

 and one subspecies are here described as new. 



The species which have not hitherto been registered from Sambawa, as far as 

 I know, are marked with an asterisk. 



The newly added sjjecies are mostly known from other islands of the so-called 

 Timor group of islands; the others are rather Indo-Malayau elements, only one, Falco 

 lanulatus, being of Australian origin. 



1. Pratincola caprata (L.). 

 Low country at Bima and Tamlmra. 



*2. GeocicMa interpres (Temin.). 

 Tambora at 20UU feet. Not clill'tTfut from the Lombok specimens. 



*'i. Geocichla dohertyi Hartert. 

 (See antea, p. 555.) In the bills of Tambora at about 30U0 feet. 



*4. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.). 



Bima and Tambora, low country and at :ii)iii) feet. Males with wings 70 — 72 

 mm., &J'em(tle wing 63 mm. 



It is quite possible that two forms, a larger and a smaller, migrate in winter to 

 these islands, for in our other specimens the sexual difference in size is not so 

 large. 



•5. Brachypteryx leucophrys (Temm.). 

 Tambora, 3000 feet. " Iris dark brown; beak black, pale below ; feet palp slaty 

 grey." There is a good deal of variation in those little birds, somi' being much more 

 rufous, others more olive, the middle of the throat and abdomen being sometimes 

 quite white, sometimes very much washed with pale brown. 



0. Parus atriceps Ilorsf. 

 Bima and Tambora, low country and up to an elevation of 3000 feet. 

 {Par-US cinereus of Guillemard's list.) 



•7. Dicaeum ig'niferum Wall. 



Tambora, low country and at ;j(HJO feet. 



3. " Iris dark brown ; beak black ; feet blackish." Wings of the males 50 — 52 

 mm., of iXwJ'emales 49 mm. These measurements arc a little larger tlian those given 

 in the C'tt. B. Brit. Mus. X. p. 10, from Flores specimens. 



