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above yellowisli einnaraou, audacis chestnut- or nifons-cinnamon, and also the 

 chest and sides difTer in the same way. Possibly the Timor examples iu Leyden 

 have darkened, as Gorn-Bmitings and Robins do, iu collection, especially when 

 inadequately kept and exposed to dust, light and damp. Dr. Finsch, however, 

 is right in doubting the differences in size, though generally peronii are larger, 

 wing near to or above 110 mm., aiulacis from Wetter, Babber, Roma on an 

 average 104 to 109, from Dammcr 100 to 108 mm.; but I admit that these 

 differences in size are not constant enough to mention them, while the colour is 

 an unmistakable character for the separation of these two excellent subsi)ecies. 



Mr. Kilhn sent the following specimens, in addition to those formerly obtained 

 on Dammer : 



13 (J? ad.. Wetter, September, October 1902. (Nos. 5452, 5457, 5597, 5598, 

 five without numbers.) 



2 juv., 28 c? ? ad., Roma, July, August 1902. (Nos. 5079—6084, 5147—5151, 

 and nineteen without numbers.) 



" Iris dark coifee-brown (dark brown), feet pale flesh-colour, bill dull black, 

 pale at base below." 



106. Geocichla andromedae (Temm.). 



Myiothera Andromedae Temminct, PI. Col. 'd'i)2 (Ifiilj : Java). 

 Gi'ockhla Aiidrometlne Finscb, Xotes Lfijden Mus. xxii. p. 264 (Wetter). 



4 J(?, 4 ? ?, Wetter, October 1902. (Nos. 5592—5594, 5776, 5848, 5849, 

 5849a, 6325.) 



1 c? juv., Roma, 26. viii. 1902. (No. 5410.) 



c? ? ad., "Iris dark brown (very dark brown, brownish-black), feet dark 

 browuish grey, bill black." 



107. Pratincola caprata caprata (L.). 



ilutacilla Caprata Linnaeus, Syst. Nal. ed. xii. p. .335 (170G : ex Brisson, hab. Luzon). 

 Pratincola caprata Finsch, Notes Let/den Mus. 2;.xii. p. 2ii2 (Wetter, Kisser). 



5 cJ ad., 1 (J juv., 2 ? ad.. Wetter, September, October 1902. (Nos. 5518, 

 5561, 5562, 5738, 5739, 5762, 5800, 5801.) 



3 cJ ad., 2 ?, 1 c? juv.. Kisser, April, May 1901. (Nos. 3859, 3926, 3962, 

 and four without numbers.) 



TIMELIIDAE. 

 108. Cisticola cisticola fuscicapilla Wall. 



Cafirulafim-ifapUla Wallace, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 48'J (Timor, Flores, Type from Timor). 



The magic spell cast arountl Cisticola cisticola iu its (probably numerous) 

 geographical forms by Dr. Sharpe, who in the Cat. B. vii. united all the forms from 

 France and Spain to South Africa, China and Japan, south down to Timor, etc., 

 has now been broken. Mr. Whitakcr has separated the N. African form 

 {Bull. B. (). C, October 1903), and we may as well give up the view that the same 

 form ranges from Fiance to the Cape and Timor. The birds from Wetter, Moa, 

 Letti, Kisser, arc exactly like tliosc from Timor. They are much duller tliau 

 S. European cisticola. 



2 dcJ, 1 not sexed, Moa, November 19U2. (Nos. 6157, 6323, 6324.) 

 1 ?, Wetter, 1. x. 1902. (No. 5676.) 



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