66 Mr. F. Nicholson on Birds 



IV. — Supplementary Notes to the List of Birds collected by 

 Mr. H. 0. Forbes in the Island of Java. By Francis 



NICHOLSON; F.Z.S. 



A FEW species were accidentally omitted from my record of 

 Mr. Forbes^s Bantam collection (Ibis, 1881, p. 139). I 

 have also received a few skins from him which were obtained 

 in the Preangcr Regencies, Java, amongst which arc some 

 interesting birds; while a small series was collected by 

 him during his trip to the Keeling Islands, of the ornithology 

 of which I believe nothing was previously known, Mr. 

 Forbes, however, found only sea-birds there, and nothing of 

 striking interest. Too much praise cannot be rendered to 

 him for the careful way in which the colours of the soft parts 

 have been noted. 



I have referred to my previous paper (Ibis, 1881, p. 139) 

 on Javan birds collected by Mr. Forbes ; but otherwise the 

 references are taken from Mr. Moore^s ' Catalogue ' and 

 Count Salvadori's ' Uccelli di Borneo,* unless otherwise 

 stated. 



From Bantam. 



1. ZosTEROPs jAVANicA (Horsf.) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 

 E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 263. 



Zosterops montana, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 164. no. 2172 

 (nee Bp.). 



No. 221, S • Kosala, Bantam, 3100 feet above sea, March 

 5, 1879. Sooty-brown irides. 



Compared with some of the typical skins in the British 

 Museum. Mr. G. R. Gray has named a Sumatran specimen 

 in the above-named collection Z. montana (Bp. ex Miill. 

 MSS.) ; but I cannot think that this identification is right, 

 as Bonaparte compares his bird to Z. flava of Horsfield, a 

 totally different species from the present one. 



2. TuRTUR BiTORQUATA, Tcmm. J Wall. Ibis, 1875, p. 391. 

 No. 122, ? . Genteng Lebak, April 30, 1871. Irides 

 orange. " Putar.*' 



