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12. Philemon timoriensis neglectus (Biittik.). 



Lomblen, Pantar, and Alor. 



I have hitherto, following Biittikofer, put down Philemon neglecfua as a distinct 

 species, but having now before me a large series from Lombok, Sambawa, Snmba, 

 and Flores to compare with the birds from Savu and Timor, and those now procured 

 on Alor, Pantar, and Lomblen, I see that the differences are verj- slight and variable. 

 In fact freshly moulted specimens of the two forms are ver}' difficult to distinguish, 

 the only difference being a lighter forehead and more distinct whitish eyebrow in 

 yh. timoriensis timoriensis, which are also generally, but not always, slightly smaller 

 in size. I found it by no means easy to decide to which form the Alor and Pantar 

 birds belonged. Young individnahs have wide greenish edges to the wing-qnUls, 

 and the whitish margins on the back are also a sign of immaturity, though not to 

 be fonnd in the nestling. 



13. Taeniopyg-ia iusularis (Wall.). 

 Alor. 



14. Munia pallida Mall. 

 Alor. 



15. Munia quinticolor (Vieill.). 



(See Vol. IV. p. 521.) Three specimens from Alor have the rump very pale, 

 even paler than the Flores specimens before me. This character, however, is 

 variable even in the three Alor birds, and no doubt the freshly moulted bird has 

 a much darker rump. Even the lighter forehead and crown is due to an abraded 

 state of plumage, and I no longer believe in M. umllacei as a species, and even 

 doubt that it will ultimately be possible to separate it subspecifically. 



16. Munia punctulata nisoria (Temm.). 

 Lomblen. 



IT. Munia molucca > propinqua. 



One single skin from Pantar. It hardly differs from tyi^ical M. molucca, but 

 a series will probably show an approach towards ,1/. m. propinqua, if not that they 

 are true M. m. propinqua. 



I am here making use of the sign introduced by Meyer & Wiglesworth, a 

 sign which may well be used in addition to simple trinomials, if the form is not the 

 typical subspecies referred to in the third name, but stands somewhat between the 

 latter and the form to which the specific name has been given to show to which of 

 the two forms it appears to be nearer related. 



IS. Eulabes veneratus (Bp.). 



Alor and Pantar. 



The wattles vary very much in length, but, according to the se.x-marks on our 

 specimens, the longer wattles are not peculiar to the male, but rather to age. 

 The young bird has a bare nape, but no watth^s. The iris in the male was found 

 to be chocolate-brown, in the female clear lemon-yellow, in a young female dirty 

 white. " The lappets are orange-yellow ; bill deep orange ; feet wax-yellow, claws 

 yellowish liorn-brown." The Alor and Pantar specimens are like those from other 

 islands, but some (not all) of the Flores skins have longer wings. 



