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ill Heiitember. The head and neck are greyish white with <freenisii edges to the 

 feathers, breast and abdomen dull green with yellow borders, baok greenish, remiges 

 green with yellow edges, tail as in the adult bird with yellowish green tips. The 

 native Mr. Everett sent to Snmba obtained two fine old birds, ^female and a male, 

 during the dry season, both in perfect plumage. The female is exactly like the male, 

 only much smaller ; the wing of the mala measuring lx(i, that of ViwJ'i-mnlc 1 'Z mm. 



OS. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.) (III. p. oSO). 



Waingajio. (^ ad. "Iris, outer ring yellow, inner ring yellowish green; 

 eyelids and bill yellowish green; feet dull carmine." 



69. Carpophaga aenea (L.) (III. p. 589). 



Waingapo. <S ad. " Iris crimson-lake; bill dark grey, ajiical tliird of maxilla 

 nearly white, base of culmen to point of nostrils dull purj)lish carmine." 



70. Geopelia maugeus (Temm.) (III. p. yiiOj. 

 Waingapo. Rather worn in September. 



71. Chalcophaps indica (L.) (III. j). ri9n). 



Common everywhere. Specimens ol)tainpd during tiie N.W. monsoon were in 

 beautiful j)lnmage. 



72. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.) (III. p. 5S'.)). 



This widespread common bird, with its most absurd specilic name, was found 

 common enough in Snmba Island. 



73. Gallinula frontata Wall, 



One immature female, shot in December, near AVaingapo. In dimensions 

 perfectly similar to si)ecimens of G. frontata from Celebes. Below rather duller 

 and paler, the feathers of the abdomen with white edges. These latter characters 

 are evidently due to nonage. The occurrence in Sumba is remarkable. The species 

 is known to be common in Celebes and the Moluccas. One specimen is in the 

 British Museum said to have come from Port Bloresby ((Joldie), and Blasius states 

 that it breeds in S.E. Borneo. The specimens from there require further attention. 



74. Amaurornis phoenicura (Forst.). 



Several skins, all immature. It is said by Legge & Sharpe that the Timorese 

 leucomelae/ia is not separable from typical A. phoenicura, but it seems peculiar to 

 me that nearly all specimens from the Lesser Sunda Islands have no white on the 

 forehead, or only an indication of it. 



75. Bubulcus coromaiidus (15odd.). 

 In beautiful nuptial i)lnmagc in January. 



7fi. Nettion gibberifrons S. Midi. (III. p. 590). 



? ad. Waingapo, much-worn plumage in Uecember. " Iris orange-brown; 

 bill lead-bine, distal jwrtion of mandible yellowish flesh-colour; feet lead-grey." 



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