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tbey are feral. Some of these birds, in fact the majority, are indistinguishable 

 from Gallii.s Ji'/Ti/(^/ne/is from India and China, though some have very short 

 tarsi. Probably either wild-caug-ht G. ffrrugineits have been introduced, or more 

 likely a race of domestic fowl descendant from Gallus ferrugineus has run wild 

 and thus tlie jungles of Wetter are inhabited by an apparently quite wild fowl. 



About the nomenclature of this species see Nor. Zool. 1902, p. 21s, and 

 " Aus den AVanderjahreu eines Naturforschers," p. 11)0. 



3. Synoicus raaltenii (S. Mall). 



Penlix Rdiiltfiiii S. Miiller, Verh. Nat. Grsrii. A'nI. Be-., Lriiiil- eii Yolkmlimth-, p. 158 



(1839-44 : Timor). 

 Syiiijicus Saalte/ii Finsch, Noten Leytleu Muf. xxii. p. 302 (Kisser). 



Common on Letti, November 10(12. (Nos. 5904— .5900, 5967, 60.55, G087, 

 (i0><8, 042.3 — 6420.) " Iris c? ¥ burnt-sienna red (dark burnt-sienna red, dark 

 chocolate red), feet yellowish ochreous, liill ash-grey with black tij)." 



Moa, 4 c??, December 1902. (Nos. 6301, 6302, 6409, 6410.) 



Wetter, 6c??, September— October 1902. (Nos. .5579, 5580, 5720, 5871 — 

 5873.) 1 ?, 16. iv. 1901. (No. 3751.) 



Kisser, 7 ad. 2 pull., April— May 1901. (Nos. 3877, 4029, 4030, 4031, 4033, 

 4076, two pulli without numbers.) 



The latter are above brown, each feather with a buffy white shaft-stripe, 

 a brown-black subterminal liar and some such spots nearer the base, head and 

 neck uniform brown, underside paler, and with smaller, more spot-like blackish 

 markings. 



All these birds belong to the typical raalttniii, not to the pale Savu form. 



HEMII'ODII. 

 4. Turnix maculosus (Temm.). 



Ilemipiiflhix mwuloxus Temminck, Pig. el GaUhi. iii. pp. C31, 757 (Australia). 



New to these islands. Dr. Finsch has predicted its occurrence. 



7 c?? ad.. Wetter, April 1901, September, October 1902. (Nos. 3763, 5577, 

 5578, 5719, 5859, 5868, 5869.) "Iris brownish white (yellowish white, whitish 

 o<'hreous, najjles yellow), feet oclireous, bill below and often basal portion above 

 yellowish, rest blackish brown." 



1 c?, Kisser, .5. v. 1901. (No. 40lo.) 



4 cJ?, Moa, November— December 1002. (Nos. 6202, 6203, 6300, 6307.) 



COLUMBAE. 

 5. Ptilinopus cincta cincta (Knip & Tomm.). 



Oilumha CInrta Knip and Temm., Piyeuux i. p. U%. pi. 23 (1808—1811 ; locality uncertain. AVe 

 must accept Timor as the typical locality, this being the only island where it was obtained, 

 except later on on Wetter). 



Plilojiiis i-iiiftuK Finsch, N'ole.'i Lq/il. Mux. xxii. p. 292 (Wetter). 



Very common on Roma and Wetter. 



Mr. Kiihn sent 7 from Wetter, 30 from Itonia, the former collected in 

 October, the latter in .Inly. (Nos. 5119—5123 and 5181—5186, from Roma, 

 5559, .5560, 5709 — 5713 from Wetter, the rest without numbers.) "Iris Imrut- 



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