( 239) 



in very good condition. The bill from the base on the forehead about 18, from gape 

 to tip 2ii, wing 03, metatarsns 2o, hind-toe with claw IT, tail very much worn, 

 apparently when perfect about oO mm. 



This bird also is quite a surprise in the Moluccas. 



.50. Cisticola exilis (Vig. & Horsf.). 



Mount Mada and Kayeli. Wallace {Ffoc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 25) described the 

 Burn bird as C. rmtica, but, according to Sharpe, it is the same as C. exilis (Cat. B- 

 VII. p. 269). 



ol. Acanthopneuste everetti Hart. 

 {Bidl. B. 0. Club. VIII. p. 31 [Feb. 1899.]) 



c? ad. Top of head gre}'ish brown ; superciliary line pale grey, not very 

 conspicuous. Rest of u])perside dark olive-green. Tail and wings blackish brown 

 edged with the colour of the back, rectrices with narrow white edges to the inner 

 webs. Throat dirty white ; remainder of under-surface bright sulphur-yellow ; 

 sides of breast and body washed with greenish olive. Wing .59, tail 42, metatarsus 

 22, culmen 13 mm. ?_ like the males, but a little smaller, wing 58 mm. Jar. Crown 

 olive-green like the back, throat yellow like abdomen. 



The geographical extension to Burn of this bird, which is evidently related to 

 Acanthopneuste presbytis of Timor and A. jioris of Flores is most interesting. It 

 differs from A. Jioris by its greyish brown crown, whitish throat and absence of 

 white in the tail, the narrow edges to the inner webs of the rectrices not being 

 visible when the tail is shut or even moderately spread out. A. ei-eretti differs still 

 more from ^1. presbi/tis, in having no white in the tail, in wanting the pale central 

 line on the crown, in its darker abdomen and much larger size. 



-1. etcretti was discovered by Dumas on Mount Madn. 



52. Acanthopneuste borealis Bias. 



Common in winter. 



I very much doubt that the species formerly included in Cri/ptolopha and now 

 placed in Acanthopneuste really belong there at all. The type of Acanthopneuste is 

 borealis, which seems to me to be a very good Phijlloscopus, while the Malayan 

 species of the group to which my Jioris, everetti, and presbt/tis belong, are evidently 

 not Phi/lloscopi, nor to be retained in Cnjptolopha proper. 



53. Geocichla dumasi Rothsch. 

 [Plate IV. fig. 3.] 



One single male was obtained on Mount IMada, and described by Mr. Rothschild 

 {Bull. B. 0. Club, VIII. p. 30, Feb. 1809) as follows :— 



c? ad. Whole upper-surface bright olive-rufuus brown, with two tufts of 

 creamy white feathers, one on each side of the rump. Lesser upper wing-coverts 

 like back ; greater upper wing-coverts black, with two rows of large round white 

 spots. Remiges blackish brown ; the outer webs of the primaries with narrow, 

 those of the secondaries with broad, olive-rufous borders. All wing-feathers, 

 except the outer three, with large white patches near the base of the inner webs. 

 Tail like the back, but darker. Whole throat and chest black ; abdomen white ; 



