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ACCOUNT OF THE BIRDS COLLECTED IN SUMBA BY 

 ALFRED EVERETT AND HIS NATIVE HUNTERS. 



By ERNST HARTKRT. 



OUR friend Everett visited Snmba in the autnmn and early winter of 1896, and 

 I slionld have pul)lished an aceonnt i>f his collection long ago, had it not been 

 for the fact that he sent a trained native to Samba again, with outfit and instrnc- 

 tions to collect in the higher parts of the interior. This man first made a short 

 but very successful trip, during which he got the first specimen of the new Horubill, 

 Hhytidoceros everetti, but a second trip was only partly a success, and finally he had 

 to be dismissed. 



As Doherty had collected chiefly near ^^'aingapo, Mr. Everett tried to reach 

 the forest-clad mountains of the western end of the island; but he was again baffled 

 in his endeavour to do so, owing to the insecurity of the country, and therefore his 

 collections were again almost confined to the surroundings of Waingapo. Just 

 before Mr. Everett left the island a number of the Waiugapo people were reported 

 to have been murdered by the natives of Mount Mandekaka, so he did not send his 

 men there, as he had intended to do. Mr. Everett is convinced that there is a 

 great deal to be done yet in birds in Sumba by any one who can reach the real forest 

 country ; but it would require a large and strong party. It is interesting to hear 

 that " Flores and Sumba are j)erfectly visible from each other, but only during the 

 N.W. monsoon, while in the S.E. monsoon they are, as a rule, perfectly obscured 

 by haze." 



Although Doherty had taken the cream of the ornis of Sumba, it will be seen 

 that Everett's collections have done much to increase our knowledge of this most 

 interesting island, the omis of which is chiefly about the same as that of 

 Sambawa, bnt with a mixture of Timorese and a good many specialised forms, 

 among which the Eclectus, the Rhytidoceros everetti, the beautiful Ptilinopua 

 doherti/i, Cacatua citrinocristata, and quite a number of Passerine birds are most 

 remarkable. 



My first article on the Sumba birds sent by Doherty appeared in Vol. III. 

 of this jonrnal. I have added the jiage of that article wherever the species had 

 been mentioned there. Where no such quotation appears after the name the bird 

 had not been received from Doherty. 



1. Corvus macrorhynchns ^^'agl. 

 Waingapo and other j)arts of Sumba. 



2. Geocichla dohertyi Hart. (III. p. 556, PI. XI.). 



A fine series from Waingapo and other places. This species was found by 

 Doherty on Lombok and Sambawa, by Everett in South Flores and Sumba. 



:5. Pratincola caprata (L.) (III. p. 580). 

 AVaiugapo. 



