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E Mus. Brit. 



a. c? ad. Celebes [A. R. Wallace) . 



b, c. (^ ^ ad. Macassar {A. R. Wallace). 

 d,e. c? ? ad. Celebes {Gould coll.). 



f. (^ ad. Menado {Gould coll.) . 



E Mus. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay. 

 a,b. S ^ ad. N. Celebes. 



I [I. — On Collections of Birds made by Mr. H. 0. Forbes in 

 South-eastern Sumatra. By Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. 



The present collection of Mr. Forbes^s does not contain 

 many species which are not recorded by the late Marquis of 

 Tweeddale, in his paper on Mr. Buxton's Lampong collection 

 (Ibis, 1877, pp. 283-323). It is indeed to be regretted that 

 Mr. Forbes, who is an excellent collector, has not pene- 

 trated further into the islands he has visited ; for at present 

 the specimens obtained by him have nearly all belonged to 

 well-known species, and I have published lists of them chiefly 

 on account of the notes attached by Mr. Forbes concern- 

 ing the soft parts &c. 



The birds here enumerated have been obtained by Mr. 

 Forbes chiefly in the Lampong district of S.E. Sumatra; and 

 I have referred throughout to Lord Tweeddale's excellent 

 memoir^, as well as to Count Salvadori's paper f on Dr. 

 Beccari^s collection. 



1. MicROHiERAx FRiNGiLLARius (Drap.) J Twcedd. t. cit. 

 p. 286 j Salvad. t. cit. p. 172. 



No. 283, 2 • Kitta Djawa, Sumatra. Irides brown ; bill, 

 legs, and feet black. 



This bird seems to me rather large, when compared with 



* Tweeddale, Marquis of, " On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. 

 E. C. Buxton in the district of Lampong, S.E. Sumatra " (Ibis, 1877, 

 pp. 283-323). 



t Salvadori, T., "Catalogo di una collezione di UcceUi fatta nella 

 parte occidentale di Sumatra dal Prof, Odoardo Beccari" (Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Geuov. xiv. pp. 1G9-253). 



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