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•4(i. Microeca oscillans Hartert {nnteu, p. 170). 



S ad. Forehead, crciwn, aad tiape dark brown, with an olive tinge ; back 

 similar, bnt lighter ; rump with a rufons wash ; upper tail-coverts rufons. Wings 

 deep brown, inner lining rnfons bnff, onter webs pale rnsset (between figs. IG and 

 19 on Ridgway's PI. III.). Tail chestunt-brown ; shafts of rectrices lighter and 

 more ferrnginous. Tlimat grey ; chest a little darker grey ; sides of abdomen pale 

 brown, middle of abdomen greyish white. Under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts 

 light bnfiF. Total length about 135 mm. ; wing 76 in three skins marked " cf," 78 in 

 one marked " <?," 81 in one marked " <?," and 75-5 in one marked " ? " ; tail 

 58—61; exposed part of culmen 11 ; tarsus 18. The female does not differ from 

 the males. 



At elevations of from 30u0 to 3500 feet in South Flores. 



There is perhaps some uncertainty about the exact position of this bird. 

 According to the key in the fourth volume of the Catalogue of Birds, it would fall in 

 with Alseonax, for the wings are not as long as in typical Microeca. The form of 

 the bill and its habitat, however, as well as the somewhat stronger feet, seem to 

 remove it from Alseonax, and it is, I think, best united with Microeca, as in M. 

 hemixantha Scl. we have already a Microeca in which the wings are comparatively 

 shorter than in Alseonax. 



The fifth primary is longest, the fourth about equal. 



•47. Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe. 

 From above 3000 feet. 



•48. Muscicapula hyperythra Blytli. 

 Not rare at about 3000 and 3500 feet. 



*49. Erythromyias dumetoria Wall. 



This species, which was discovered in Lombok by Wallace, was met with not 

 unfrerjuently in the lowlands of South Flores by Everett. It is true that the skins 

 before me from Flores are less deep black above, with some dark black centres of the 

 feathers of the crown, giving the head a striated appearance, and that the wing is 

 generally about a millimetre longer. All these differences, however, are, I think, 

 probably signs of immaturity, and; one cannot separate the Flores bird without 

 further evidence. 



•50. Piezorhynchus trivirgatus (Temm.). 

 This rare species is, as far as I know, only known from Timor. Everett shot it 

 below 1000 feet in South Flores. He says of it : " ? . Iris dark brown ; bill lead- 

 blue, tipped with black ; legs dark lead-grey." In the description Cat. B. IV. 

 p. 419, first line from above, it should read "tipped with white" instead of "tipped 

 with black.'' 



•51. Cryptolopha montis floris Hartert {antea, p. 171). 



A number of skins of a Cryptolopht from the hills of South Flores arc hardly 

 distinguishable from C. montis from Mount Kina Balu in North Borneo ; but the 



