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is the only thing eatable that is procurable iu these islands. As the dry season 

 wa,s well set in, with consequent scarcity of insects, etc., and I could not get water 

 carried ujr tlie mountain even fur four rupees for each man carrnug a single bamboo 

 full, it was liardly worth staying, even if I had had provisions. The birds also were 

 in poor plumage." 



In another letter Everett says : " It is cnrions how Eclecttis Cornelia got to 

 Snmba if there is no sjjecies of the genns in Timor. I feel sure that there is an 

 Eclectus iu Wetter — perhaps E. ivestermrnnii, of which the liome is still unknown, 

 or a new species." 



A few mammals were collected on Alor : Cephalotes peronii Cieoflf., Xantkarpyia 

 amplexicaudata Geoff., Pteropus temmincki Peters, and Mus rattus neglectus Jent. 



Lomblen and Alor. 



Lomblen and Alor. 



Alor. 



Alor. 



Alor and Pantar. 



1. Corvus macrorhynchus \\'agl. 



2. Pratincola caprata (L.). 



3. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 



4. Parus atriceps Horsf. 

 •5. Dicaeum igniferam Wall. 



*>. Acmonorhynchus annae Butt. (?) 



One 3-oung male from Alor. It has no yellow on the rump, but this is wanting 

 in young of both se.^es (see Vol. IV. p. .518), and there is therefore no reason to 

 doubt that this sjjecimen lielotigs to ^1. annae, although it would be desirable to 

 examine adnlt birds from Alor. 



7. Cinnyris solans (Temm.). 

 Not rare in Alor and Lonilileu. No ditferenee from Flores specimens. 



8. Anthreptes malaccensis chlorigaster (Sharpe). 

 Alor, Lomblen, and Pantar. 



9. Zosterops aureifrons Wall. 



Lomblen. 



ill. Zosterops citrinella Bj). 



Alor, common. cJ ad. (pairing iu March): '"Iris raw sienna-brown; bill 

 dusky black, basal half of lower mandible plumbeous ; legs lead-grey." 



1 1 ■ Stigmatops ocularis (Gould). 



Alor, common. The dillereuce in size and colour of the sexes is enormous. 

 The wing measures about 73 mm. in the male, 65 mm. in the/emale. 



