( 570 ) 



*31. Erythromyias dumetoria Wall. 



Frequently met with in the mountains of Tauibora at about 3000 feet. 

 "(J. Iris dark lirown ; bill black ; feet dull pale islate-colonr." 



•3,!. Cryptolopha trivirgata (Strickl.). 



Common in the mountains of Tambora. 



" Iris dark brown ; feet dark slaty, soles ochreous ; beak blackish ; commissnre 

 and base of mandible jiale." Wings 5S — 60 mm. The few Java specimens I was 

 able to measure have the wings some millimetres shorter. 



33. Rhipidura sumbawensis Biittik. 



In the low country and at 3000 feet in Tambora. " Iris dark brown; 1)ill black; 

 feet dark brown." The long rictal bristles have very conspicuous white bases, 

 while their tips are black. Wings ot T/iales 81 — 82 mm., oi' /r males 70 — 77 mm. 

 (Notes Leyden Mm. 1893, p. S.'i.) 



34. Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.). 

 Bima and Tambora, low country and 3000 feet. 



*3.5. Collocalia esculenta (L.). 



One (?, shot on the volcano of Tambora, at 3000 feet, belongs to this species, 

 though it is rather steel-blue above. Wing 94 mm. 



This species has never been known to extend so far westwards. Timor 

 possesses a quite different species, and it is probably via Djampea and Kalao, from 

 Celebes, that this species reaches the Lesser Siinda Islands. Lombok has C. lincki. 



36. Caprimulgus affinis Horsf. 

 S ad. in full moult. Tambora, low country. 



37. lyngipicus grandis Harg. 



 Bima and Taiiibora, low country and at 3000 feet. " Iris dark brown, or 

 brownish grey ; feet greenish ; bill dark bluish slate-colour, paler at base below." 



38. Merops ornatus Lath. 



Met with commonly in the low country and iu the hills of Tambora at about 3oOO 

 feet, and also at Bima. Dr. A. B. Meyer in sitzamisber. Isis, Dresden, I. p. 19, called 

 attention (to a blue spot under the black baud of the throat in some Sumba 

 specimens. This remarkalile blue spot is very largely developed in one specimen 

 from Sambawa, while it is not visible in another adult bird. 



•39. Pelargopsis gurial floresiana (.Sharpej. 



This very distinct form of P. ffur/al was shut in the low country of Tambora. 

 The iris was ''dark brown ; eyelids and beak dark vermilion ; lij] <if beak dark 

 blackish ; feet coral-red ; claws bliickish." 



