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The following list of 51 birds clearly shows that the avifauna of Savn is 

 practically the same as that of Timor. The occnrreuce of typical Dicdcum muckloti, 

 Philemon timoriensis, Mijiagra rufigula rufigula, and Collocalia neglecta prove this 

 particularly. 



2soue of the species is peculiar to the island, for even the newly described 

 Gerygone everetti occurs also on Timor, where H. 0. Forbes lollected a specimen 

 of it. 



Several of the species, such as Ninox ocellata, Stiix Jlammea delicatula, 

 Ptilinopus ewingi, Turnix mactdosus, Nijcticorax caledonicus, and Ardca norac- 

 hollamtinc, are striking instances of Australian forms having remained entirely 

 unchanged on the different islands of the Malayan Archipelago, while other more 

 Malayan, Snndanese, or Moluccan forms are found in many more or less varied local 

 forms on the various islands. These facts allow us to conclude that the Australian 

 forms are not older, bnt more recent immigrants to the areas under consideration. 

 On the whole the Australian element is small, and there is, from our ornithological 

 knowledge, no absolute necessity to accept that there ever was a land-connection 

 across the Timor Sea from Australia to Timor, in which case we should have to 

 expect a much larger amount of Australian eleiuents (cf. Nov. Zool. III. 1896, 

 pp. 514 and 599). 



High credit is due to our friend Mr. Everett for so diligently exploring such 

 small unknown islands as Savu, thus filling out the gaps between the more or less 

 known larger islands, and adding considerably to our knowledge of the fauna of the 

 Eastern Archipelago. 



1. Pratiacola caprata (L). 

 Several adult males and females. 



2. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 

 A series shovring no special peculiarities. 



3. Dicaeum mackloti Mull, it Schleg. 



A good series of both sexes. When recording this species from Lombok on 

 p. 557 of Vol. III. of Nov. Zool. I said, " No difference between specimens from 

 Lombok and Flores." There is, first of all, a penslip, for I meant to say Timor 

 instead of Flores, the bird not being known to occur in Flores at all. Then it must 

 be stated that, in spite of my statement, there are some slight differences, which I 

 did not notice at the time, bi;t now, having before me a good series of well jirepared 

 Lombok skins, and a still larger of Savn specimens, which agree with those from 

 Timor, I have to state that Dr. Sharpe, in Cat. B. X. p. 26, most justly remarked that 

 the Lombok male in the British Museum had a longer and more slender bill than his 

 examjiles from Timor, and that all our Lombok birds differ in this same ])oint from 

 our Savu series. The majority of the skins from Savu and Timor are also very dis- 

 tinctly more buff on the abdomen, and the flanks are not so greyish. Under these 

 circumstances I am obliged to separate the Lombok bird as 



sii. nov. 



Dicaeum neglectum > 



This form is eviileutly closely allied to J), macldoti from Timor and Savu, and 

 it may be only a subspecies of it. The same may perhaps with some right be 



